Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 16, 2006 01:04 AM
This will hurt and maybe even stop people from making small distros
Sure it will. It's such an unfair burden to have to upload source files in addition to binaries to a server. And the extra space needed will simply break the backs of the poor little guy just trying to help the rest of us out.
But how are you helping others who might want, or need, to modify your sources if they can't get them? Why do you want to produce a distribution that has no sources? Is it an ego thing, to give something to the world that you retain control over? Your argument is unconvincing. Hosting space is not that expensive. The effort involved to upload sources as well as binaries is not that great.
And the freedoms your proposal removes are too important.
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Re:GPL is hurting small derivative distros
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 16, 2006 01:04 AMSure it will. It's such an unfair burden to have to upload source files in addition to binaries to a server. And the extra space needed will simply break the backs of the poor little guy just trying to help the rest of us out.
But how are you helping others who might want, or need, to modify your sources if they can't get them? Why do you want to produce a distribution that has no sources? Is it an ego thing, to give something to the world that you retain control over? Your argument is unconvincing. Hosting space is not that expensive. The effort involved to upload sources as well as binaries is not that great.
And the freedoms your proposal removes are too important.
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