One of the problems of leading a group of volunteers is that one can only lead where they will follow. There was too much resentment among a number of Debian developers over the $2 fee I proposed to charge for the privilege of producing the official Debian CD. Thus, Debian will not charge any fee for the privilege of producing the Official Debian CD. We will instead request, but not compel, a donation from CD manufacturers. The amount of the donation pledged per unit will be printed on the CD package. We will still require a contract to use the cover art and the words "Official Debian CD", but this contact will be designed to give the project control over the content, not revenue from unit sales. As currently, we will continue to allow anyone to produce Debian CDs without a contract, as long as they use different cover art and call it something without the words "Official Debian" in it.
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