Re: Deltad archive (WAS: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Two non-free programs in gNewSense)

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:09:54 +0200
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Karl Goetz schreef:
> > On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:23:25 -0400
> > Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >>     > http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-deltad/pool/universe/d/d4x/
> >>     > http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-deltad/pool/universe/i/ivman/
> >>
> >>     Its our 1.x release - the archive is only available for systems
> >> still running 1.x/historical interest.
> >>
> >> Please delete the non-free programs from those archives too.
> >> Just being in an old release doesn't make it ok to distribute
> >> proprietary software.
> > 
> > Can anyone think of a good reason to keep these repos public facing?
> > We may be required to keep the source 'net facing, but the binaries?
> > 
> > I'm wondering this since its meant to be a dead release. If its
> > still going to take dev power to maintain, perhaps its easier to
> > keep it properly retired.
> 
> I was thinking the same thing. I'd be surprised if anyone uses deltad 
> anymore. You could ask on the gnewsense-users mailing list for good
> form.

Message sent.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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