Why packages sources are NOT mirrored?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:36:52 -0400
DJ Delorie <dj at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> writes:
> > I would talk with the mirrors in your area and find out why they
> > don't mirror it.
> 
> Do mirror sites have the option to not include sources? [*]

The pkgs.fedoraproject.org lookaside cache? 
(Which is what this thread was about)
No, because we don't offer it for mirroring currently.

If you mean SRPMS, then yes, they can choose to mirror some or none of
those.

> If so, does letting them have this choice have GPL implications?  I
> mean, if they're distributing binaries without making the sources
> available via the same site...  (and one of the arguments for that
> clause of the GPL was "the user may not be able to access the part of
> the internet where you put the sources" - which seems to be the case
> here)

IANAL, but no. 

kevin
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