Re: Fulfilling our source obligation
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:
> [Matt Taggart]
>> In the process of giving out all these CDs it occurred to me that
>> Debian could make it easier for people giving out CDs to fulfill
>> their source obligation(required by some licenses like the GPL) by
>> creating an ISO image that also contained it's own source.
>
> As far as I know the GPL only require the source to be available on
> request.
Where where you during the Task&Skill checks?
GPL requires that the source accompanies the binary directly or a
written offer to deliver the source on demand (directly or passed on
from where you got the binary).
So actually handing out just binary CD1 is a violation of the GPL
since neither source nor a written offer is there.
You (Matt) can build a source CD for binary CD1 and have them ready
for anyone that wants it. If people don't take/buy both its their own
fault (like when they only download the binary from an url). That way
you usualy get away with 0 source CDs, or with burning one or two.
> But I welcome the idea for other reasons. It would increase the
> amount of offline backup media for the source, and also make it easier
> to send "modifiable" CDs to countries with very bad Internet
> connections.
>
>> What do people think? Is this a reasonable idea? Should I start
>> looking in to what it would take to make the current processes do
>> this? (or does someone who's already doing it want to save me the
>> trouble? I'm not above bribery, name your price)
>
> Sounds good to me. I'm aware of two CD building tools at the moment.
> debian-cd and picax. There are probably more options available.
> debian-cd is the one we use at the moment, but it is getting harder
> and harder to maintain.
Does debian-cd organize the source CDs to correlate to the binary CDs
in any way?
MfG
Goswin
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