From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue May 29 14:28:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF6037B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 14:28:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4TLSB627914; Wed, 30 May 2001 07:28:12 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:28:13 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Garrett Wollman Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: final state of mirroring ? In-Reply-To: <200105291703.NAA96921@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 29 May 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > to the stage there is a non consistent structure. i really > > don't understand why there are 7 versions of one package, > > If the program is GPL'ed, we have to keep the source code around for > three years. you don't have to keep it online in the same archive in the same place for 3 years surely. "keep the source code" for 3 years on a separate machine or at worst create "gpl-archived-versions" which can easily be excluded into which older versions are copied which are *not* required to be carried, as at the rate of GPL'ed software development, the distfiles directory will exceed the freebsd archive size in a couple of years. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message