On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:49:51 +1100 (EST) 
 John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> wrote:

 > I thought that specifying the cvs date would allow anyone to checkout
 > the sources by anon cvs and rebuild the snapshot. Is this not enough
 > to satisfy the GPL requirement? Surely it meets the requirements of
 > those who want/need to rebuild something in the snapshot.

What if something changes 2 hours after the snapshot builder checked out
his/her sources?

You really want the snapshot building to provide the sources he/she used.

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