Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 15:31:20 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, jkh@freebsd.org, orders@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org, asami@freebsd.org, wosch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing distfiles on FreeBSD-4.0 RELEASE CD-ROMs Message-ID: <1725.959812280@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 2000 16:37:52 %2B0200." <200005311437.e4VEbq002983@mail-ob.kamp.net>
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> I perfectly understand the space restrictions and I'm actually very impressed > by the way, you managed to fit so many packages on just 4 CDs. But have you > considered the following arguments? Of course. > 1. Some packages are derived from GPLed sources and dropping their distfiles > may not be in the spirit of the GPL. The GPL states, that it is enough That is incorrect and you simply need to read the GPL again a bit more closely. The GPL requires that you make this material available either by pointing the end-user at an FTP site containing the distribution sources or on some media at a reasonable price. The ftp.freesoftware.com FTP site contains the sources required and at no download fee, satisfying the requirements from one angle, and the toolkit CDROM set satisfies it from another. > 2. Most Linux-Distributions come with full sources or at least a substantial > amount of sources, and that includes sources for everything, including What the Linux distributions are doing is what the linux distributions are doing. FreeBSD does not slavishly follow everything that Linux does and if it did, it would simply be another Linux. I don't see how this point of comparison has merit. In any case, this is simply how things are and isn't likely to change until such time as DVDs become more popular or I'm allowed to increase the size of the default distribution set. Going to 6 CDs would give me the option of putting some distfiles on the same FreeBSD release collections, but the price would almost certainly have to be raised to cover the increased costs. Would you be willing to pay more for the product if that were the case? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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