Oooops! I forgot the references. [1]http://universo.canaima.softwarelibre.gob.ve/ [2]http://repositorio.canaima.softwarelibre.gob.ve/ On 08/01/12 12:42, Luis Alejandro Martinez Faneyth wrote: > On 07/01/12 23:09, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Paul Wise wrote: >> >>> At the very least this means you are violating >>> copyright law due to dpkg, apt and other Debian-specific software >>> being licensed under the GNU General Public License, which is a >>> copyleft license that requires distribution of source code. >> >> This appears to be incorrect (Canaima does not seem to be distributing >> apt/dpkg), I apologise profusely for incorrectly claiming this. > > Well, we do distribute apt/dpkg, only that we do not modify it. > > We have three great groups of packages in Canaima: > > (1) Unmodified packages from Debian (the major part of Canaima's > packages): these are served to our users through a local Debian mirror > [1] that includes all branches, i386, amd64 and it's sources. > > (2) Modified packages from Debian: these are the minimal required for > the identification of the distribution (lsb, base-files, python-apt, > update-manager, desktop-base), all of this done through quilt patches > (sources are 3.0 quilt). These are served in a separate repository[2]. > > (3) New packages from Canaima: these are the metapackages and packages > that give structure to the dependency tree, as well as the visual style, > some rebranded packages, development tools, support tools, and other > interesting packages that we are trying to get in shape for uploading to > Debian. These are served in a separate repository[2]. > > So, concluding: We base Canaima development in a "layer model", having > group (1) in the "Debian Layer" and groups (2) & (3) in the "Canaima > Layer", both layers interacting through apt-pinning and sources.list. > > We distribute all the sources for group (1) in the mirror, but for > groups (2) and (3) we only distribute the sources for Canaima 3.1, as i > explained in a previous mail. > > Don't worry, we need as much feedback from you as possible. > > Thank you. > >> >>> I am extremely concerned that Canaima is not distributing source code >>> for some of the suites. >> >> This is still true. >> > -- Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth Blog: http://www.huntingbears.com.ve/ Twitter/Identi.ca: @LuisAlejandro ED51 8FE7 4107 715D 0464 8366 F614 5A95 E78D AA2E CODE IS POETRY
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