[ANNOUNCE]: FC6 ia64 ISOs available

[Andy Green]

Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:37:57 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
>> Yes, where MEPIS != Debian, but in this case the ia64 compose of
>> Fedora = Fedora.  There are no changes (afaik) the ia64 binary
>> packages were built from the same srpms at the same time that the
>> i386, x86_64, and ppc(64) binary rpms were built.
>>
> 
> The point is that ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fedora/ has to carry the
> SRPMS as well, I think.

Personally I think it's fine to point back to RHAT for the sources, 
after all you click on a link and get taken to a server with the correct 
sources, it is very difficult to find something to complain about that 
it happens to be hosted by RHAT and not the same files elsewhere.  If 
the files disappeared from RHAT or for some other reason users could not 
get at them, well then it can be time to worry about hosting sources 
yourself.  But that does not seem to be the opinion of the FSF:

''...
Talking on behalf of CentOS, Johnny Hughes says, "CentOS has been 
providing source for all packages, changed and unchanged, in their 
distribution. CentOS has the same understanding of the GPL as expressed 
by the FSF on this issue."
...
  "Before I was contacted by the FSF, I didn't know that we needed to 
actually offer the source code of binaries we didn't modify," says John 
Andrews, the source code maintainer of Damn Small Linux. "Yet we do 
comply now, and the FSF occasionally pops in with an email to make sure 
we do." Similarly,  LinuxCD.org, a distributor, makes only Fedora source 
code available -- and only provides that because it was specifically 
requested to do so.
...''

-Andy