On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:42, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not opposed to either of those, though I also don't feel that they are > must-haves. I suppose we also have to start looking at the image size. The > current alpha-raw contents seems to weigh >600 MB already. If we're going > to add the full sources, we might hit the CD size limit. trunk's @alpha-cd builds to 485 MB. 25MB of that will be reclaimed when VLC & Clockwerk are removed. If Web+ is added, most of that will be balanced as it uncompresses to 23M (8M zip) I'm of the opinion that if Web+ becomes an included package then BeZilla could be removed or stored as zip, like several other packages on the CD. Here's some packages that could be stored as zips on the CD and the amount of space gained. BeZillaBrowser +23M (12M zip) BeBook +7M (2.5M zip) Yasm +5M (3M zip) WonderBrush +4M (3M zip) = 41M gained. It may be possible to store the gcc2 and gcc4 compilers as zips as well, which would give +43M (27M zips) If the sources are compressed as either .tar.xz or .7z, then I don't see space being an issue. As for alternatives for providing the source code, I honestly don't think it's viable. This is a clipping from GPL v2 =-=-= a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) =-=-= Now IANAL, but since the cd's can be purchased, I'm unsure if that qualifies as commercial distribution. Honestly, I'm not willing to take that chance. In the unlikely case that CafePress is indeed able to accommodate our need to provide a written offer, there is no guarantee that the address provided will remain valid in the future. --mmadia