On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:57:19AM -0800, kaboom at hush.com wrote:
> 
> Sorry had no intention of pestering you guys further, but is there
> actually any reason to not ditribute the source?
Yeah, it's big. For example, the 0.5.0.5 source tar.gz is 2030460, and
the ZIP is 2637997 bytes. This is nearly twice the size of the
distribution ZIP itself.
> 
> Its not much extra overhead and part of the distribution servlet
> concept is to account for an unfriendly social environment which has
> in fact arrived in euphanisms like that.
Welll... the question is, do we want to make it mandatory for the
distribution servlet to work? And if so, we should provide a way to get
it from within freenet if you don't have it. I don't think it's worth
it, at the moment.
> 
> What do they do in China?
> 
> Future generations may sing your praises for doing so.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:59:20 -0800 Ian Clarke <ian at freenetproject.org> 
> wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:38:40PM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> >> The problem is that we don't know which version of the JAR the
> >local
> >> node is running, and therefore which source. It's possible that
> >it's
> >> come from another node running the distservlet, who may have a
> >> custom JAR or whatever.
> >
> >Technically, it is the responsibility of the person that modifies
> >the
> >JAR to ensure that the modified source is available, and if they
> >are
> >determined not-to, there isn't really any way that we can force
> >them
> >short of take them to court for violating the GPL.
> >
> >Ian.
> >
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