On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:41 +0200, udo rader wrote: > On Son, 2002-04-07 at 21:14, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 13:46 -0500, Paul Cox wrote: > > > On Sunday, Apr 07, 2002, sda wrote: > > > NOT providing free and easy access to the _current_ .iso is about the > > > biggest violation you can make to the GPL. > > > > Not exactly. Who can demand Mandrake to provide ISOs at all? Nobody. Does > > SuSE provide iso files even BEFORE the boxed verion is in the stores? > > That is one thing nobody seems to take in account. All I read in the > > newsgroup is "8.2 is out. What takes Mandrake so long to bring the boxes > > into my home town?" If MandrakeSoft did not provide the ISOs as soon as > > they are ready those ppl did not even know there was a new version. > > That's like the other big distros handle it. > > > > The GPL does NOT say you have to put out ISOs of your product ASAP. The > > GPL doesn't even say you have to put ISOs on the net at all. All the GPL > > says is that if you have a product you can make it public and if you make > > it public it has to be free and you have to provide a means for the > > public to get the sources. > > You are certainly right in terms of GPL. But I don't agree that mdk will > fail because it makes ISOs accessible through the net (too early). I
Where did I write that? I am whole heartedly agreed with the Mandrake way of distribution. Else I would not contribute to them since version 5.3. wobo -- Registered Linux User 228909 Powered By Mandrake Linux 8.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- PDAs? Laptops? Linux? Andallthatinoneword? http://www.xtops.de !
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