Mike

Mike Noyes wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 23:13, Cédric Schieli wrote:
>> A rapid scan of bering-uclibc src repo tells following apps have links to
>> other repos rather than a local copy :
>>
>> apps/automake (ftp.gnu.org)
>> apps/buildenv (ftp.gnu.org, ftp.gwdg.de, www.kernel.org)
>> apps/linux (www.de.kernel.org)
>> apps/openssl (www.openssl.org)
>> apps/syslinux (www.kernel.org)
>> contrib/aiccu (www.sixxs.net)
>> contrib/shorewall (www.shorewall.net)
>>
>> Should we track availability of tarballs in our repo for past releases (but
>> more recent than 3 years) ?
> 
> Cédric,
> My understanding of the new enforcement is if you distribute you must
> make source available. No more linking to up-stream source for
> compliance, when distributing unmodified binaries. :-(

I read the interview with Stallman, the way I understand it...

If you provide software to download the source then the link it points 
to _must_not_be_altered_.

This is pretty sensible.

cheers

Erich

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