On Wed, October 16, 2013 15:01, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I do realize that most of the value of a CDN is not in its software > parts. But I'm under the impression there is still quite a bit of > software behind commercial CDN offerings. So my question is: would the > CDN providers we're going to choose be able to ensure that the software > parts behind their offerings to us are 100% Free Software?
It is of course a good target to strive for, but putting such a demand on a service is probably not fair, because our current distribution system also does not run on 100% Free Software. We do not know what software our mirrors are running (we can make a guess that there will be Debian hosts in there, but just as well we can be quite sure there will be some Solaris or commercial Linux variants) so it's just as opaque as a commercial CDN offering would be. The principled point that everything Debian does should involve 100% Free Software is not the status quo nor is it attainable. We will deliver bits using equipment running Cisco IOS, and we will not have the source of the bank software that processes our donations. The question is therefore: do we consider such CDN services to be more like network- or financial services, which we source externally, or is it a core aspect of developing Debian? Cheers, Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
