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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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