From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 14 5:47:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 904E037B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 05:47:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rapier.smartspace.co.za) Received: (qmail 18983 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Mar 2001 13:46:55 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:46:54 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copyright issues regarding FreeBSD ISOs/CDs Message-ID: <20010314154654.A18459@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <200103141336.f2EDaZ215574@ns1.unixathome.org>; <20010314153955.A17985@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <200103141342.f2EDga215670@ns1.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103141342.f2EDga215670@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:42:36AM +1300 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2001-03-15 (02:42), Dan Langille wrote: > On 14 Mar 2001, at 15:39, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > As far as I'm aware, BSDi (like WC before them) retain (compilation) > > copyright on all the ISO layouts, > > Understood. > > > but give out the copy and distribute > > the first ISO image. > > !Understood. nbmHat 9.2 starting Monochrome console detected, no 'l33t colours. Starting service: spelling [OK] Starting service: punctuation [OK] Starting service: cool acronyms [OK] Starting service: trademark parenthesis style [OK] Starting service: grammar [FAILED] Uh. Add 'right to' between 'the' and 'copy', and things make slightly more sense. Copyright doesn't mean that others can't do things, just that they can't do things unless you allow them. In this case, the right to use, distribute, and copy the ISO is given. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message