Re: distributing source
Adam McKenna <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:09:49 -0800
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On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:13:52PM +0100, Frank Louwers wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:08:11PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:38:36PM +0100, Frank Louwers wrote: > > > You mean i have to rebuild these packages on every machine? That's quite > > > stupid? > > > > Well, the idea behind this is, that your customer are free to move to > > another service provider and have the source for their installation. > > No. It is said nowhere that I must keep the source. If I download the > thing on the client's server, compile and install it, and then remove > the source tree, the client won't have the source either... If you didn't modify the source, the client could just download it again from cr.yp.to. If you modified it, then the client would lose access to your modifications. --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[email protected]> | GPG: 17A4 11F7 5E7E C2E7 08AA http://flounder.net/publickey.html | 38B0 05D0 8BF7 2C6D 110A