Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Ramon Gandia wrote:
>
> > Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Hoyt wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am creating, for my personal use and education, a customized Mandrake 6.0 CD
>that not only includes the current updates, but includes updated versions of RawWrite
>for Windows, rawrite2, explore2fs, WINE, additional documentation, some additional
>KDE RPMs, and so on. This may also a turn into a project for the local LUG.
> > > >
> > > > I'm running out of space on the CD.
> > > >
> > > > What in the /MISC tree can I safely delete? I suspect all the /CVS
>directories, and the files ending in .C, .H and .O. in the /SRC directory; the older
>copy of the SYSLINUX directory, the RESCUE.BAK directory. How about those .NOG files?
> > >
> > > Make sure you check all the copyrights and such before deleteing any
> > > source code.
> >
> > Copyrights and GPL are not an issue in cutting CD's for personal
> > use. I do not imagine that it would be an issue in cutting a
> > CD at a LUG session. This is all private use, not distribution.
>
> INAL, nor claim to be, however distribution at a LUG is distribution none
> the less. and i'm sure somebodys lawyer would have a field day with the
> following, not to mention the others..
As long as you can point to where the source IS available, I doubt you'd
have much of a problem. The GPL allows you to ship the distribution
without source. It certainly must, since my CheapBytes M5.3 CD didn't
have any for the RPMS it had on it.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corp.
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