[arch-dev-public] Tool tarball location

Jason Chu jason at archlinux.org
Sun Oct 7 21:08:44 EDT 2007


On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 05:18:31PM -0700, eliott wrote:
> Wait..what is this thread about?
> I may have lost some history due to early message deletion....
> 
> Are we talking about storing the source to every package in our ftp tree?

Yeah.  The GPL says that if you distribute a derivative work (binary
package) you also have to make available the source.

We will need a marker in the PKGBUILD to say that we can't distribute the
source, but I'm not worried about that just yet.

Jason
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