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Other stuff from the board meeting...

Posted Mar 18, 2008 12:39 UTC (Tue) by emk (subscriber, #1128)
In reply to: Other stuff from the board meeting... by mdomsch
Parent article: Fedora 9 to remove pointers to proprietary codecs

With a little bit of pre-planning, couldn't you make this process fairly fool-proof?
Specifically:

1) Decide to only distribute binary CDs/DVDs of actual Fedora and Enterprise releases, not
(say) alpha and beta builds.

2) Generate *.iso files for the corresponding source CDs/DVDs up front.

3) Store the *.iso files on high-reliability storage (a properly backed-up RAID server or
something).

When somebody asks for source code, just grab and burn the appropriate *.iso.

Realistically, this would cost a week of engineering time to set up, and a few hundred dollars
a year in RAID drives and server administration. GPL 3b is pretty obnoxious in this
day-and-age, but it's not that huge a hassle for anybody with good long-term data storage.


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