What is the copyright on the download versions? Are they the same as store bought or could they bebulk copied? If I remember right Caldera's downloads may have problems with sound drivers. Jim K ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Howe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:06 AM Subject: [EUG-LUG:1589] RE: 2001, EUGLUG at the Magic Odyssey > > 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 > >
