-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: > Patrick McLean schrieb: >> I have absolutely zero experience with catalyst, but couldn't it be made >> to create a source CD ISO when it is generating the binary one? Just >> make a cd with all the distfiles used in the ISO, and keep the source >> ISO with the binary one in /historical. > > Creating an ISO isn't a problem (assuming you have the sources, which > for historical releases might be a problem), but it would require > another several hundred megabytes per release on the mirrors which isn't > exactly a trivial amount. > No it's not a trivial amount, but it's also important that we comply with the licenses of the software that we distribute. I think that storing a gig or two extra on the mirrors (or more on the mirrors that archive /historical) is fairly trivial compared to violating the GPL.
If we violate the GPL in this case, we really won't be able to enforce it in the future if someone were to violate it in the case of our stuff. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEqsTnWt/XSf2CZdkRAk6FAJ9Sph9N43xafN/ihxUOREjKgJX8KACcCbTy 52EK0y1dFpYu7PL17gu2K3U= =NP2P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
