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Re: [ANNOUNCE]: FC6 ia64 ISOs available



On Thursday 02 November 2006 10:20, Andy Green wrote:
> Sounds good to me but just a FYI
>
> ''... Warren Woodford, the founder of the MEPIS distribution, would
> prefer to be concentrating on polishing his latest release. Instead, he
> is distracted by an official notice from the Free Software Foundation
> that, because MEPIS has not previously supplied source code for the
> packages already available from the distribution it is based on -- once
> Debian, and now Ubuntu -- it is in violation of the GNU General Public
> License (GPL). Woodford intends to comply, but he worries about how this
> requirement might affect all distributions derived from other
> distributions -- especially those run by one or two people in their
> spare time. ...''

Yes, where MEPIS != Debian, but in this case the ia64 compose of Fedora = 
Fedora.  There are no changes (afaik) the ia64 binary packages were built 
from the same srpms at the same time that the i386, x86_64, and ppc(64) 
binary rpms were built.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora

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