Re: DFSG and GPL -- source retention
> >This is ok if we shut down all any publically accessible mirrors which
> >only offer binaries.
Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
> Mirror site owners/administrators are responsible for their own
> policies. Surely Debian itself is responsible only for ...debian.org?
I meant from the official mirrors list. To quote from README.mirrors:
"A Secondary mirror site may have restrictions on what they mirror
(due to space restrictions) that being source code or non-i386 binaries."
One solution is for a well advertised public site to keep the GPLed
sources around for three years after the binaries are deleted from all
our mirrors, so that binary-only mirrors can "repeat the offer" for
distribution of the source.
Another is that we warn people who are interested in setting up mirrors
that this is an issue -- that they're legally obligated to publically
redistribute the sources if they publically redistribute the binaries.
And drop from the official mirrors list any sites which would violate
the GPL.
--
Raul
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