> Neato! I was thinking ahead to next Spring, though, so hold that
> thought for, like, nine months.
Nine Months??? OK. Hopefully FreeBSD 5 will be GA by then. It's supposed
to rock.
> Yeah, but the audience we're addressing would respond
> well to the
> Fair logo, and if we can get permission, and it wouldn't cost too much
> more to go that way...
I think they have a labeling kit at CostCo too...
> Either BSD or the GPL will allow this, but we need to watch for
> some distros using proprietary setup programs and such, SuSE
> might be a
> problem, and certainly Caldera, maybe some others. Not Slackware or
> Debian, though.
Actually there are special cases, at least one anyway. OpenBSD is free for
all and under the BSD license, but the CD layout is copywrite Theo DeRaat.
You can make your own CD with all the same stuff on it, but you can't copy
one of the official CDs. The reason for this is that the CDs fund
development. This has come under fire from the Slashdot crowd, but I think
they are wrong and Theo is right. The funding he has used to do development
has done wonders for the security of every free OS, including commercial
versions of Linux (OpenSSH anyone?).
So, OpenBSD CDs would have to be done custom. Also, doesn't Red Hat and
some others ship with commercial software for Linux? I don't think that's
legal to copy. If we do Debian CDs, we should probably include some install
instructions, the last version I looked at was confusing, and I install
OpenBSD all the time. I still think of Slack and Debian as the two "pure"
distros. ...but I digress...
--Tim
