Created attachment 597098 [details, diff] Clarify that files must be distributable. In general-concepts/mirrors there is the following wording: "If you have to host a source file (patch or tarball) yourself, as long as it is suitable to be distributed by Gentoo Foundation (by license and legality), you're suggested to use your developer's space at dev.gentoo.org." This make little sense. It is not enough if a file is distributable by the Gentoo Foundation (e.g., under a special permission). At a minimum, we want such files to be freely distributable by anyone, in order that they can be distributed by Gentoo mirrors. Patch is attached. Please review.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=f706f2b0eed3e03f6e4d74f8416373e12697ce50 commit f706f2b0eed3e03f6e4d74f8416373e12697ce50 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-11-21 14:34:01 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-11-26 13:39:49 +0000 general-concepts/mirrors: Clarify that files must be distributable. It makes no sense to require that files are distributable only by the Gentoo Foundation; they should be freely distributable by anyone. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/700888 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> general-concepts/mirrors/text.xml | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
