On Thursday 02 November 2006 10:20, Andy Green wrote:
Sounds good to me but just a FYI
''... Warren Woodford, the founder of the MEPIS distribution, would
prefer to be concentrating on polishing his latest release. Instead, he
is distracted by an official notice from the Free Software Foundation
that, because MEPIS has not previously supplied source code for the
packages already available from the distribution it is based on -- once
Debian, and now Ubuntu -- it is in violation of the GNU General Public
License (GPL). Woodford intends to comply, but he worries about how this
requirement might affect all distributions derived from other
distributions -- especially those run by one or two people in their
spare time. ...''
Yes, where MEPIS != Debian, but in this case the ia64 compose of Fedora =
Fedora. There are no changes (afaik) the ia64 binary packages were built
from the same srpms at the same time that the i386, x86_64, and ppc(64)
binary rpms were built.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora