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It's not a conspiracy - it's just ironic twist of fate...

It's not a conspiracy - it's just ironic twist of fate...

Posted Jul 22, 2009 8:20 UTC (Wed) by kragil (subscriber, #34373)
In reply to: It's not a conspiracy - it's just ironic twist of fate... by khim
Parent article: Launchpad source released

That is your choice, but you don't really have track changes. You just need to make the current running version available.

Just have a script pack the source and put on the web every time you change the production source. It is not rocket science.


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It's not a conspiracy - it's just ironic twist of fate...

Posted Jul 22, 2009 13:38 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

I hope that this approach will still owrk in the presence of caching.

It's not a conspiracy - it's just ironic twist of fate...

Posted Jul 22, 2009 22:04 UTC (Wed) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

That's irrelevant.

If you make the source available as required by the licence, then that's all you're obliged to do.

If the user can't get at the source because of caching, then legally that's called "frustration", where neither side can be held liable for failure.

It's a bit like a contract says "A will deliver the goods to B via the wotsit bridge". If A fails to deliver the goods because the wotsit bridge fell down overnight, B has no comeback against A because A is willing to fulfil the contract - he just can't because the bridge is no longer there.

Cheres,
Wol

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