[maemo-developers] How remove package from extra-devel free?

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Dec 19, 2009, at 12:54, Darren Long wrote:

> Hmm.  IANAL, but in my naivety, I would have thought that maemo.org would have to provide source for the binaries they (have) distribute(d).

I'm no lawyer either, but we don't remove the package permanently from our servers, we just remove it from the repos. So the software is still physically there. Often there are copies of it upstream as well, so it is easy to get. But we may need to look into some form of archiving all the software in a more accessible way.

Jeremiah

> 
> Darren
> 
> On 19 Dec 2009, at 11:48, Dave Neary wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Darren Long wrote:
>>> Out of curiosity, assuming its a GPL package, wouldn't you have to leave the source in the repo for 3 years or something?
>> 
>> Don't confuse a written offer to provide source code with availability
>> of a binary.
>> 
>> In short, anyone who has already downloaded the application can get a
>> hold of the source code, and the details of how they can do that are in
>> the licence file they should have gotten with the binary.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Dave.
>> 
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>> maemo.org docsmaster
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