On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:16:54AM -0700, Edward Craig wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Tim Howe wrote: > > > I have just acquired a nice new PlexWriter 12/10/32 drive and I would be > > happy to burn some Linux and BSD CDs. > > make ISO images from a CD if somebody has that (if it's legal to do > > that). > 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. > You would also need to check whether or not the individual packages on those CDs allow redistribution. I think perhaps he was refering to the OpenBSD CDs. The ISO image for the official OpenBSD CDs are copyrighted by Theo de Raadt, and the license does NOT allow copying or redistribution. The idea is to get people to pay for the CDs, which is where the OpenBSD project gets most of it's funding. Of course, all the files on the CD are covered by the GPL or less restrictive licenses, so there's nothing stopping you from making your own CDs ... as long as their not exactly like the official CDs. I don't think it would be all that easy to duplicate the CDs anyway. I've never seen any other CD that can boot on both i386 and ppc, but I haven't played with mkhybrid all that much ;) I make my own i386 only OpenBSD discs (and I buy the release discs for the stickers ;). All the base tarballs, including X, and the various floppy images only take up ~102MB. Throw on tgz'd CVS checkouts of src, ports, and XF4, and I still have a few hundred MB for my fav distfiles and pkgs. There's some scripts in ports/infrastructure that parse the port Makefiles, to produce a list of distfiles/pkgs whose licenses allow distribution on CD. Could I get you, Tim, to put together a CD of a recent OBSD snapshot? I'd like to check out pf, the new packet filter, and some other things, like 'M-x theo' in mg (latest info on direction and current status of the OBSD project), but I only have a 56k connection, and I hear -current is a bit of a bear to compile at the time being. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PS If you've got a CD-R in your OBSD box, I ported a nifty Qt2 cdrecord frontend called CD-Rchive to OpenBSD -> ftp://ftp.jakemsr.com/pub/jakemsr/cdrchive-1.2.3-OpenBSD.tar.gz
