On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hi James, > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 05:11:19PM -0400, James Westby wrote: >> A further thought occurred to me the other day. > >> I assume that we have to put the source packages in the hwpack too, for >> at least the packages with some GPL code. Given that hwpacks also serve >> as a snapshot of the archive, we can't rely on a pointer to the original >> archive to serve the purpose. > >> Knowing which packages to include source for will be tricky, so I would >> implement this as source for all of them, at least to start with. > > Is it intended that pre-release hwpacks will be long-lived? I expected the > same rules to apply as to pre-release images: ephemeral objects used during > development that would be replaced at release time by images built from the > final archive, leaving no lingering obligation to provide easy access to > source for images we're no longer distributing. Are the hwpacks not going > to follow this same release cycle?
Right, I think legally we might really not be required to do this; however, technically it still makes sense to me to have the sources used to produce a certain hwpack. Especially since we use ppa's or some other archives for hwpacks which have no guarantees to keep history etc. -- - Alexander _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
