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Warly wrote:
| Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
|
|>[Didn't get any response to the first try]
|>
|>Looking at the Mandrake 8.1 ISOs, there are two text files in the root of the
|>first CD, named LICENSE.txt and LICENSE-APPS.txt; they were apparently
|>written with a 2 CD set in mind since -APPS refers to ``the next CD''. This
|>may cause our LUG a problem.
|>
|>We're trying to talk the local libraries into distributing Linux CDs
|>within their system, including Mandrake Linux. They're aghast at the concept
|>of something (software, yet!) that can actually be copied for free. Their
|>standard terms of use tell the user to delete anything from their hard disk
|>that the loan CD installs before returning it. The -APPS file makes it look
|>like only the first CD can be distributed for free.
|>
|>Can the 8.2 CD set please *not* have a LICENSE-APPS.txt file except maybe on
|>the last CD, and can that file please at least list the specific non-GPL
|>licences involved and the specific packages impacted?
|>
|
| I can just remove this file for downloadable version, it only refers to
| commercial apps in boxed version anyway.
|
|

Please do so, I am involved in a similar project in distributing CDs to
libraries here in South Africa ...

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