[ros-dev] Vote: Allow 3rd-party distribution of ROS through XDCC Bot.

[James Tabor]

Alex Ionescu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Right now, someone has set up an XDCC IRC bot to distribute copies of 
> ReactOS. While I welcome the move, it raises a question on who is 
> responsible for the quality of those files. Even if the person means no 
> harm, the files can get corrupted/infected by the following events:
> 
>    1) Download corruption
>    2) Viral infection
>    3) Hard-disk damage
> 
> And perhaps many more. In all cases, this would result in unusable, 
> dangerous or even damaging releases of ReactOS, which we could not 
> control. As such, I propose a vote:
> 
> 
> [ ] Yes, allow 3rd-party distribution of the OS through the #ros-xdcc 
> channel and ROS-XDCC-001 bot. (support and encourage this distribution)
> 
> [X] Yes, allow 3rd-party distribution of the OS, but it must clearly 
> distance itself from officially supported releases (tolerate but do not 
> support this distribution)
> 
> [ ] No, only sourceforge and other official ReactOS distribution points 
> should be used.
> 
> 
> Myself I vote for the first choice, but I would like the following to be 
> done:
> 
>    1) Create MD5 Hashes to verify authenticity
>    2) Set up official communications with the bot's maintainer and 
> establish a set of guidelines.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
Okay I'll bite!

Must MUST distance the ros development team from all third party distributions!

Miles and miles and miles ,,,, ,, , ,,, .

Do you want to be sued like M$ (aka SCO) did with IBM? I notice that Linus was
untouched by them too.

Well?
James