On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:56:34 GMT [email protected] (Karl Berry) wrote: > After the recent > mail, I also added another check for GNU webmasters to make -- that the > sources are readily available. > > Thoughts?
Speaking of - what did it actually mean "that the sources are readily available"? Did it mean that a project must actually host the sources of all contents of the distro (including sources of Linux, GNU, Xorg, GNOME, KDE, etc.)? This would mean a considerable amount of resources must be spent for that, which could be a problem for small projects. Or would it be enough for the project to host just their own sources plus a building mechanism which fetch the sources from their primary locations (e. g. from ftp.gnu.org for GNU)? That's what many distros with a ports-like system do (like Parabola and ConnochaetOS). I know little about how other free distros handle this situation. Gnewsense and Trisquel as Debian based distros have the sources in their repository and I think BLAG offers source-RPMs. But I wasn't, for example, able to locate sources from dyne:bolic and Dragora (I didn't search very hard, though). Kind regards, Henry
