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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:22:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Cc:        hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.4 upcoming release/timetabling/mirroring
Message-ID:  <200109111522.f8BFMqc27621@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010911105802.A323@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>
References:  <jkh@freebsd.org> <200109102245.AAA00160@mother.ludd.luth.se> <20010911094153.C56165@skriver.dk> <20010911105802.A323@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>

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<<On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:58:02 +0200, "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> said:

> BTW, port distfiles represent a significative percentage of a FreeBSD
> mirror's storage needs (near 12GB and growing). Couldn't the distfiles be
> moved to a different archive?

One interpretation of the GPL says that we must offer the distfiles
(of GPL'ed software) for as long as we offer any of the binaries
generated therefrom.

-GAWollman


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