Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:16:48 -0400 From: Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: jamescarr1984 <jamescarr1984@ntlworld.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rules Message-ID: <20010410181647.A4014@guinness.osdn.com> In-Reply-To: <001801c0c1fa$fd311150$035778d8@sherline.net>; from jgowdy@home.com on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:15:29PM -0700 References: <009b01c0c1ec$1ec5dc60$94beff3e@host1> <001801c0c1fa$fd311150$035778d8@sherline.net>
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 at 13:15:29 -0700, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > I am setting up a small company which downloads linux/unix > > distributions, burns them onto cd and sells copies at a small fee. > > Is this legal to do, am I braking any rules or policies? What we > > are aiming to save time and aid frustration for users who only have > > dial-up access. > > Well I thought the FreeBSD ISO image belongs to Walnut > Creek/BSDi/whoever/new. You can make your own original ISO image, but > I don't believe you can just resell theirs. FreeBSD is free, the ISO > images are copyrighted, I believe. I may be wrong, but we covered > something of this nature at the San Diego BSD User meet. You're mostly wrong. Only disks 2-4 can't be copied as-is. You can do whatever you like with disc 1 (that's why there is only a disc 1 ISO). - jim -- - jim mock <mij@osdn.com> - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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