Re: http://www.debian.org/mirrors/size
"peter green" <plugwash@bircd.org> wrote:
> on http://www.debian.org/mirrors/size i noticed a suggestion to exclude
> sources from mirroring
>
> afaict doing so would raise gpl compliance issues
> i contacted the web team about this as suggested on the page in question
> (see below) and they told me to send this to you
It does cause problems. The mirror operator can get around that by
making a written offer to distribute source to any of the binaries
that they distribute. That means that the mirror would have to store
sources for every different version that hits the mirrors. That would
be an administrative nightmare, and doesn't sound like it would
actually reduce the amount of space required (although the source
archive could be offline).
In addition, I could imagine someone writing a DFSG-free gpl-like
license without the written offer clause. In that case, the mirror
operators would have to carry source anyway. However, I don't know of
any licenses like that currently in Debian.
Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu
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