Douglas McClendon writes:
Then the final question of course would be, since derivative
distros of this nature are using binaries actually built by fedora,
will fedora be willing to go the extra mile and offer written
assurance to keep the source rpms available for 3 years, or
whatever the whole fallout from the gpl-derivative-distro thread of
recent history was.
I mean, it seems plain silly to force derivative distros, that are
using binaries compiled and provided by fedora, to maintain a
mirror of the source rpms. Especially if as above, the yum configs
in the derivative distros are pointing at fedora servers anyway.
Tough. It's what the GPL says. If you supply someone with a binary,
you have to supply the source. You can't point someone somewhere else
and say "the source is over there, get it yourself".
Andrew.
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