On Monday, May 20, 2013 11:25:50 AM Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> wrote: > > Apt will error out that it can't find the package. > > > > I think that if we are distributing binaries, we should (perhaps must, I'm > > not sure) enable the source repositories in order to , as a free software > > distribution, provide the source that goes with the binaries we > > distribute. > Required to make them available, but that doesn't mean they have to be > enabled inside of apt and all the source packages are readily > available via packages.ubuntu.com which means you are already > complying with the GPL by making them readily available. Even with > that said I'm inclined to disagree with disabling them, 4MB is trivial > now days. > > I'm more surprised that people are more upset about 4MB than the 5% > that is still claimed by the system for the system which adds up to a > lot more than 4MB on some systems which on a even a small 32GB SSD is > what, 1.5GB?
I think that's legally sufficient, but not in the spirit of free software. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
