Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 10:45:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: andrew@python.shoal.net.au (Andrew Perry) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying 3.1 Message-ID: <199905061445.KAA11946@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990506234015.25906B-100000@python.shoal.net.au> from Andrew Perry at "May 6, 99 11:44:01 pm"
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Andrew Perry wrote, > I know FreeBSD is a free operating system etc... and i can sell it as I > please etc... am I allowed to copy the cd's I have purchased and sell > them? The reason I ask is that I was going to go halves with someone else > in a copy and the idea was that one of us would get the originals and one > of us would get a copy. > > am i breaking any rules/stepping on any toes here? First, the usual disclaimers, I am not a lawyer or otherwise especially fit to make judgments on copyright law. FreeBSD, the source code and programs resulting are freely reditributable, and you can charge for such redistributions. However, the Walnut Creek CDROM distribution is copyrighted by Walnut Creek and subject to their control. In addition, some of the packages included on the CDROM are only there because copyright owners have specific agreements with Walnut Creek for the package's distribution. Just anyone else cannot redistribute it for a charge. To summarize, blindly copying the whole Walnut Creek distribution is a copyright violation. Reassembling the parts of the CDROM distribution that you know are freely redistributible and making your own distribution on CD for resale is allowable. Those are rules. As for toes, you won't make a lot of friends in the FreeBSD community if you try to make a buck off of FreeBSD without giving _something_ in return. OK, one more thing. If we're only talking about you and one friend going halvies on a CDROM set, there are no licensing issues preventing you from installing FreeBSD on as many machines as you want. FreeBSD CDROMs have a fairly short shelf life, i.e. a newer version of FreeBSD is always a few months away and your CDs will be obsolete. What I'm getting at is that I don't even know if it is worth the _bother_ of making a second copy for your friend if you can exchange the originals. My four 2.2.7 CDs from just a few months ago are pretty much only useful as drink coasters at this point. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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