Re: Package Pool Proposal
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:17:44AM -0800, Craig Brozefsky wrote:
> Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
>
> > why should my employer, or myself, be forced to to pay volume charges to
> > download sources which we rarely use (cost is approx 20 cents/MB)? if i
> > want the source for a particular package, then i will download it when i
> > need it.
>
> Mirroring for personal use, or for use in your organization is not
> distributing it, and therefor you would not be responsible under the
> GPL for making source available. The issue I have is wether Debian
> mirrors which are for public access, which would be distribution,
> would be required to also mirror source.
IANAL, but I think you have to make source AVAILABLE, not mirror it
You may ex: point to an URL where one can find source.
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