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Other stuff from the board meeting...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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