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Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu



On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:01:32PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>
> 
> > Which other derivative has made available all of the changes they've made,
> > more-or-less as they make them?
> 
> Which other derivative doesn't? At least for GPL code, making
> available the changes one makes is a legal requirement (assuming that
> one wants to distribute binaries).

A number of derivatives don't make binaries publically available, or they
don't have reasonably obvious places to go to get the binaries and/or
source.  I certainly haven't seen a derivative put up a diff repository like
Ubuntu has.  I know it's not a giant leap in terms of usability or the
effort required to implement it, but it's a baby step further than any other
derivative has gone (AFAIK).

- Matt



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