(Launchpad, the site where source code of Ubuntu can be obtained)
I am currently distributing
GNU/Linux in Indonesia. As you know, distributing
libre software that is licensed under
GNU GPL and such other licenses,
requires you to distribute the source code too. A question pops up:
where to get source code of a GNU/Linux system along with whole source code repository it possesses? For example, where to get Ubuntu's source code DVD and its source code repository? To answer that question, I decided to make a series of notes regarding my search in source code of popular GNU/Linux distros. Criteria I made are (1) whether a distro provides source CD or not, (2) where the official source code
packages repo located, (3) where the
raw source codes located, and finally (4) how to get them for end users. I also tried to find (5) mirrors of the source code repo. I am starting here with Ubuntu, of course, and next time I will look at Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Trisquel. I hope this article and the next ones will help anybody to understand how important the source code is and ease them to distribute
free as in freedom software. Enjoy!
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