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Re: DFSG and GPL -- source retention



> > One issue that's come up:  we're currently doing nothing to guarantee
> > that we're distributing source for three years after binaries have been
> > shipped on GPLed code.

Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> wrote:
> We do for things we have officially released. If you look on va there
> is an archive of all releases back to rex, I could get buzz as well
> I'm told.

Really?  What urls should I look at?

> The sources we do not have come from version skew between the ports and
> interm releases on the path to being stable. I'm not sure this is good
> enough, but keeping every tar.gz we ever put out for 3 years is NOT
> feasable.

Even if we restrict special source retention treatment to those packages
with a source availability clause and even though many of our versions
are patches, not complete archives?

-- 
Raul


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