F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Fri May 3 14:51:27 UTC 2013


Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> said:
> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:12:09 -0500,
>   Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> >At this point, why is there a source RPM ISO?  Does anybody actually use
> >it to get source RPMs?
> 
> I suspect it is mainly for GPL compliance. It has the packages at the 
> same state as were used for the ISO builds. I doubt it gets used that 
> much.

How does a DVD image (that won't fit on a DVD so I doubt anybody burns)
satisfy some part of GPL compliance?  The SRPMs are on the same server
as the binaries (the same versions) and are not removed.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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