Fedora Board Recap 2007-NOV-13

[Christopher Blizzard]

On Nov 21, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

> Personally I am opposed to trying to find clever ways to not needing  
> to host the source (rpms). Finding ways to do anything different  
> from *just making the sources available online* for a period of time  
> is asking for trouble; It should work, but what if it doesn't -or  
> fails half-way? How does investing in a couple of discs weigh (each  
> release?) against the potential legal liability of losing anything  
> because in the past you thought you needed some 'clever way' to make  
> sources available.

There are a lot of things that we've wanted to do that this particular  
requirement makes difficult.  We're looking for ways to do it that  
scale and still comply with the license.  For example, if you have to  
keep around a source rpm for anything that you might have possibly  
ever might have distributed it makes for an explosion of disk space.   
(Scratch builds?  Personal builds?)  However, sources and patches  
don't explode anywhere near as quickly and if that can be carefully  
archived in a way that makes the source easy to get, then we're doing  
more than just complying with the license.

--Chris