I was thinking the same. Their excuse was a big fat cop-out. On Jan 3, 2008 11:57 AM, William Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Whyte wrote: > > FYI below is Bigpond's response to not having a mirror of the > > multiverse packages. > > > > Regards, > > Whytey > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: David Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Jan 3, 2008 9:44 AM > > Subject: [Ticket #63088] BigPond Download Problem > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Hi, > > > > No, this is currently intentional, due to disk space and legal concerns. > > We're still evaluating multiverse but currently have no plans to include > > it. > > [snip] > > Legal concerns? We don't accept non-redistributable content into > multiverse. There are some things that might not be able to be sold, but > as long as you're not selling it there are no legal issues with > mirroring it. We have hundreds of mirrors - they don't have issues with > it. > > Multiverse also isn't particularly large - less than 10% of the i386 > archive size, and many of those packages are only i386 or architecture: > all, so it will be an even smaller percentage of the full archive. > > -- > William Grant > Ubuntu Developer > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > > -- When one burns ones bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. ╔═════════════════════════╗ ║╔╗ ════╔╦╗║║╔╗ ══║║╔╗╠╗║╔╗ ║ ║╠ ╔╗╔╗══║═╠╣╠╝ ══╠╣║║║╔╣╠╝ ║ ║║ ╚╝║═══║═║║╚═ ══║║╚╝║╚╝╚═ ║ ╚═════════════════════════╝
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