On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:57:09PM +0200, luther wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question concerning the distribution of modified kernels, > modified boot-floppies and pre-installed debian iso image.
Sorry for probably breaking the thread, but i am not subscribed to debian-legal and i forgot to ask for a cc, so i just read the responses on the mail archive. Please CC me in the future ? Anyway, Branden wrote : > I would *not* provide instructions for using a Debian mirror unless > the stuff on the binary ISO really is unmodified. Well, the iso image is just a cloop compressed copy of debian/unstable installation. The sources were not modified, and come plainly from the debian mirrors. I suppose that getting the dpkg -l output or something such, and going to snapshot.debian.net searching for the corresponding source packages should do. Is it really necessary to have an iso with the whole sources ? It is not as if we would be able to remove them from the net anyway, so the sources will be available as long as debian exists, or at least as long as our archive size doesn't overgrow too much or something. Would a link to the snapshot.debian.net be enough in this case ? I really don't feel like hunting for each individual package version, and get the source of it. Sure it could probably be automated with a nice script, but is it really necessary ? Now, for the boot-floppies, the situation is different, since i actually modified them a bit (in a hacky way though, so it cannot easily be feed back to the CVS, and i don't want to work on it much, since focus is on debian-installer these days) as well as included a modified kernel and a modified parted. Providing the sources for these three packages would be enough to comply with the GPL, i feel. Friendly, Sven Luther
