On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > > > One issue that's come up: we're currently doing nothing to guarantee > > > that we're distributing source for three years after binaries have been > > > shipped on GPLed code. > > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We do for things we have officially released. If you look on va there > > is an archive of all releases back to rex, I could get buzz as well > > I'm told. > > Really? What urls should I look at?
Hmm? The archive on va is on /org/archive.debian.org/ftp > > The sources we do not have come from version skew between the ports and > > interm releases on the path to being stable. I'm not sure this is good > > enough, but keeping every tar.gz we ever put out for 3 years is NOT > > feasable. > > Even if we restrict special source retention treatment to those packages > with a source availability clause and even though many of our versions > are patches, not complete archives? Yes. We are looking at doubling or even quadrupaling the size of the source archive by even completing our version set, keeping them for 3 years is insane, we can't possibly do it. Last I checked the GPL has such a clause which is quite the chunk of our distribution. Jason
