Having a copy of .torrent in the /iso dir

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Tue Jul 5 19:07:05 UTC 2005


Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> david writes:
>
>> I was just think that the fedora mirror system could save a little/a 
>> lot of bandwidth if there were copies of the .torrent files found at 
>> http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/ in the /iso directories next to the 
>> actual iso files.  If these torrents were as convenient to get as the 
>> *.iso maybe more people would use them instead of just  saying 'what 
>> the heck' and clicking on the .iso.
>> Politically it would be a great statement.  One of the most 
>> significant open source companies stepping up and using bit torrent 
>> for an obviously legal purpose.  But, alas I'm not a lawyers so I 
>> have no idea the legal risks this would present.
>
>
> There's absolutely no legal risk in publishing a .torrent of a Fedora 
> iso.
>
> It appears that torrents were set up independently by folks outside of 
> Fedoraland-proper, and they've been managed this way all this time.

The torrent is setup by Seth Vidal, one of the primary developers of 
Yum, Fedora Extras management, Fedora Extras build system,  
Fedoraproject.org and so on. Sure he doesnt work for Red Hat but it is 
pretty much "Fedoraland" .

regards
Rahul




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