Re Bigpond Ubuntu Repository: Fwd: [Ticket #63088] BigPond Download Problem

[Blindraven]

I was thinking the same.
Their excuse was a big fat cop-out.

On Jan 3, 2008 11:57 AM, William Grant <william at qeuni.net> wrote:

> David Whyte wrote:
> > FYI below is Bigpond's response to not having a mirror of the
> > multiverse packages.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Whytey
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: David Harrison <bpfsupport at mammothmedia.com.au>
> > Date: Jan 3, 2008 9:44 AM
> > Subject: [Ticket #63088] BigPond Download Problem
> > To: David.Whyte at gmail.com
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > No, this is currently intentional, due to disk space and legal concerns.
> > We're still evaluating multiverse but currently have no plans to include
> > it.
> > [snip]
>
> Legal concerns? We don't accept non-redistributable content into
> multiverse. There are some things that might not be able to be sold, but
> as long as you're not selling it there are no legal issues with
> mirroring it. We have hundreds of mirrors - they don't have issues with
> it.
>
> Multiverse also isn't particularly large - less than 10% of the i386
> archive size, and many of those packages are only i386 or architecture:
> all, so it will be an even smaller percentage of the full archive.
>
> --
> William Grant
> Ubuntu Developer
>
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