From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 06:18:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2D616A4BF for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 06:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA6243FF2 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 06:18:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h84DHnQr003025 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:18:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)h84DHncd003024; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:17:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:17:49 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: roro Message-ID: <20030904131749.GE88888@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , roro , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000801c372cb$57cf5940$5c8f6750@roroobja2paesu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YkJPYEFdoxh/AXLE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000801c372cb$57cf5940$5c8f6750@roroobja2paesu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 13:18:11 -0000 --YkJPYEFdoxh/AXLE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:00:14PM +0200, roro wrote: > Hi and concratulations > Just one question: am I or not able to copy freeBSD and ad it as a presen= t to , lets say ,a magazin? I found the section with the ports a bit confus= ing so I?d like to make sure, not to violate any copyright. FreeBSD itself -- no problem. Go right ahead. The ports tree is considered an optional part of the main system. That's the stuff that lives under /usr/ports: Makefiles, pkg-plists etc. So you can include that. Most of the distfiles -- the source code that gets downloaded and compiled via the ports system is freely available and can be included in a disk as you suggest. As generally can the packages that are the result of compiling each port. Not all ports of packages are so freely available though. Where there are limitations on distributing the port/package, the port Makefile will lines marked: RESTRICTED=3D "Some reason why this port is restricted" or=20 NO_CDROM=3D "Some reason why this port shouldn't be included on the Fre= eBSD CDs" NO_PACKAGE=3D "Some reason why pre-compiled packages shouldn't be distrib= uted" See for instance: java/jdk14, mail/qmail However, if you want to include many of the available ports/packages, you're going to be giving away more disks than you bargained for with each magazine. Generally, if a port/package is freely available the package file will appear on ftp.freebsd.org and it will probably be included on the 3rd or 4th disks in a standard FreeBSD distribution set. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --YkJPYEFdoxh/AXLE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Vzt9dtESqEQa7a0RAuxfAJ9HvHPgOaNxFViNZtB8JInUhRNxwgCghGYq I+ZbyBoXhEajEDAkL+XZ9gA= =AXGp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YkJPYEFdoxh/AXLE--