Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:30:18 -0500 From: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Query about the usage of FreeBSD mirror sites for other projects Message-ID: <20120221203018.GD20266@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <11A0B7D3-8216-4E1A-B327-42186A9E579F@dragondata.com> References: <20120221023926.GA20266@hub.freebsd.org> <11A0B7D3-8216-4E1A-B327-42186A9E579F@dragondata.com>
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--MAH+hnPXVZWQ5cD/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:10:38PM -0600, Kevin Day wrote: >=20 > On Feb 20, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: > > Which now rather begs to ask the question, what is the opinion of our > > mirror maintainers? How do you feel about non-FreeBSD projects using > > our resources? Our community supports and sponsors some of these sites, > > should others be allowed to use them? > >=20 > > Please feel free to reply publicly, and private emails directly to me > > will be held in the strictist of confidence. > >=20 > > I am curious to see how our people feel on the matter. > >=20 > > Thanks for your time and attention to this matter. > >=20 >=20 >=20 > We run ftp3.us.freebsd.org, cvsup6.us.freebsd.org, etc which is also home= to several other projects available by ftp/http/rsync/cvsup/etc.=20 >=20 > We really don't care who uses the data we've mirrored, if we're putting i= t up to the public, anyone is free to grab/link to it. >=20 > -- Kevin >=20 Thanks Kevin. The general sentiment I have been receiving from mirror maintainers who have replied is just that, it is a public site, feel free to use it, just don't abuse it. I suspect that the sense of sharing comes from our choice to work in opensource projects. Thomas --=20 Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe --MAH+hnPXVZWQ5cD/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPQ/7aAAoJENk3EJekc8mQ9qoH/1M7J9lRUZyjmGJd2adxLVhc 4B2BkTCnHZtZ35H7afzsx85qG7Ebq6ObSHVzLtSXo5tNOVv91ZHVxlsbAQtllCKZ MlBsVTGRDAXJmXiKckiv2D1K3eGQ9NTRuC+doJOGEtaE+tt/mJ5kekK9Pf9DL5+5 GIETMqfOf/37lwTkG1cZXUS8QxtWs76/2aCQWVEASm5gpXXnbx1cjTcTwfAhC1Gj OTCuDLU69e5e3WAK+4z9qPKBPU5rmcmJu336Sa9jGOoEjFCzHD66/mUrq9XEOp5H 04E5Z605d4E9DfLSvgHtSMkQAra9Ac90fY5E1w4/i0MkhiIaR38ZukCymzQk58Y= =iU2t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MAH+hnPXVZWQ5cD/--
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