Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 00:23:41 -0400 From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> In-Reply-To: <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> References: <000701c10452$ca818600$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <3B4560DD.428634F8@softweyr.com> <20010706020341B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010706142817.A61100@xor.obsecurity.org> <200107062140.f66LeF361632@whizzo.transsys.com> <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net>
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 07:59:12PM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: > If the FreeBSD Foundation is an existing entity now, maybe we > can just change the license for the CD images to "not for resale" > unless the distributor signs an agreement with the Foundation ? I don't think this is a good idea. The foundation can give a certain CD vendor official status without limiting the rest. This is how things were in the past, and it seemed OK to me. For example, I occasionally bought the "offical" CD set from whoever was selling it. I could get it much cheaper elsewhere, but wanted to contribute money from time to time to help the project and the vendors who supported it. However, I didn't want to pay that much for CDs of the minor updates, so I usually got those from Cheap Bytes, or got a friend with fast network access to get it for me. As a FreeBSD user, I found this a useful way of doing business. Will a company like Cheap Bytes really do that much damage to the "official" vendor? The only thing I'm concerned with _as_a_user_, is that anyone who distributes CDs uses what the core team supports as "being FreeBSD". I'd hate to see someone roll their own and call it FreeBSD. -- "The determined programmer can write a FORTRAN program in any language." ______________________________________________________________________ Charles Shannon Hendrix s h a n n o n @ w i d o m a k e r . c o m To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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