Fedora Board Recap 2007-NOV-13

[Robert 'Bob' Jensen]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2007 10:00 AM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>> The concern is that depending on the legal interpretation of 3b and 3c
>> of the GPL, the clock may restart on every redistribution. So, we host a
>> release of Fedora for 3 years, then take it down, but on the day before
>> we do, someone else redistributes it and then asks us to honor our "3
>> years worth of source" promise, since for them, it hasn't been three
>> years since their initial date of redistribution.
> 
> I have a pile of F7 live cds. If I'm still a board member 3 years from
> now (god forbid) and I had that F7 livecd out. Is Fedora as a project
> responsible for making the source available still?   Again how we are
> dealing with livecds right now makes this issue unavoidable. If the
> clock starts over everytime i hand one of these officially pressed
> disks out.. you're screwed. I have enough f7 livecd disks left to hand
> out once a year for the next decade or more.  Feel free to fly up here
> and forcible take them from me.... muhahahahahahaha.
> 
> -jef
> 
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I can go one better, I have Fedora Core 6 PPC DVDs....


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