Download versions of what? You can download and install OpenBSD any way you
like... It is only the CD layout that is copywrited; you can't make copies
of the official..
--Tim
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Jim K
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [EUG-LUG:1593] RE: 2001, EUGLUG at the Magic Odyssey
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>
> 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
> >
> >
>
>
