Benjamin Franz wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
[snip]
Linking to these websites from the Fedora download page would require
that the project page be a generic one like sf.net. Linking to random
personal webpages or commercial webprojects without getting explicit
permission from them. Bandwidth costs a huge amount. That is a
liability. Linking to particular mirrors is a bad idea too especially
when they are overloaded since the users wont be able to reach those
webpages anyway.
[snip]
Redhat could have just mirrored the sha1sum.exe file itself to the
Fedora website. It is not huge (20 *Kbytes*) and is GPLed. Rather than
trying to get other people to mirror it on Redhat's behalf. Redhat
would not have even noticed the bandwith bump: The utility is smaller
than the downloads page itself with its images and stylesheets.
A clarification. We can consider linking to other projects to help users
migrate to Fedora but noone is required to mirror such utilties on the
behalf of Red Hat. If such utilities exist in a open source project
page, it is the obvious answer. sha1sum.exe serves the purpose but I
would prefer linking to a GUI program since it would be what is
convenient and expected by Windows users. Neverthless mirroring the
executable itself isnt a bad idea. I will look into that. Thanks
regards
Rahul
