Re: [Opencd-devel] Source

[Steve M. <st...@op...>]

On Friday 03 May 2002 05:00 am, Toby Inkster wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2002 00:47:42 +0100 (BST)
> Imran Ghory <im...@bi...> wrote:
>
> IG> How are we going to satisfy our obligation to distribute the source
> IG> under GPL, are we going to include it (and thereby half the amount of
> IG> stuff we can get on the CD) or offer it seperately ?
>
> We offer it as tarballs/ZIP files on the website. The *vast* majority of
> people using the CD are not going to want the source code. The majority
> probably aren't going to know what source code even is.

That may or may not be true.  People who have vast computer experience (IT 
depts) may have just the excuse they were looking for to install one of these 
apps.  Imagine the impact....  Timmy installs Mozilla, plays with it, likes 
it.  Conclusion:  This really is good stuff.  "Source code?  They don't 
really do that, that's crazy."  Timmy surfs the CD.  Holy Mackeral!  They 
really do distribute the source.  Let's go that extra yard & hammer what 
we're all about home.

I'd suggest, in my limited experience, that we take a 700M CD, cram it with 
useful apps & IF there is space left on the CD we put the src on it.  Once 
there are enough (and their may be now) apps on the CD that it is full we 
move the src code to a website.
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