From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 14 7: 5:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E7B37B63A; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 07:05:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12Usse-000Ahs-00; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:05:08 +0200 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:05:08 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Paul Richards Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Message-ID: <20000314170508.A40993@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <4.2.2.20000312122651.00b1e880@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312144558.04190e80@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312160425.00b16e80@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313103859.0410fe30@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313111904.041e0c00@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313131120.041d91f0@localhost> <20000313235517.A33142@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <38CE51D6.CC129D96@originative.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <38CE51D6.CC129D96@originative.co.uk> Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue 2000-03-14 (14:51), Paul Richards wrote: > It's also worth pointing out that, unless I've missed a change to the > contrary, the ISO images are copyrighted by WC and so you cannot take > them and do your own distribution with them. That's 'compilation copyright'. You can take the contents, due to their license, and make your own distribution from them, however. You just can't copy the whole thing verbatim, or just remove the bits you want and add your own bits, and expect to sell it (because then you're abusing Walnut Creek's compilation resources). You certainly can't restrict FreeBSD distributors to not claim compilation copyright. At least, that's how it has been explained to me, and mostly verified by a (South Africa) lawyer. You probably could get permission for the most part to do bits of that, or you could just use 'make release' like everyone else. I think 'make release' is easier, especially if you're making "FreeBSD Tendra 1.0". Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message