On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 22:31 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > Incidentally, the sources don't have to be on all the mirrors, > assuming that's a problem at all. We could supply just one source server > and rate-limit it; after all over the long term very few people will > actually need to retrieve source for older releases, and when releases > are new the sources are available much more easily via emerge and the > mirrors. Might be worth while making that clear to people downloading > the CDs.
The sources don't have to be on *any* mirrors. We can simply burn them all to a DVD and put an offer on the CD on how to get the sources, then distribute it for the cost of the DVD/shipping. Another idea would be to put the CD/DVD/whatever on the store, with 0 mark-up. That would mean we would be distributing it, at cost, upon request. There's nothing in the GPL that says that we have to increase the disk space *or* the bandwidth usage of *any* machines to comply. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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