On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 07:59:12PM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> If the FreeBSD Foundation is an existing entity now, maybe we
> can just change the license for the CD images to "not for resale"
> unless the distributor signs an agreement with the Foundation ?
I don't think this is a good idea. The foundation can give a certain CD
vendor official status without limiting the rest. This is how things
were in the past, and it seemed OK to me.
For example, I occasionally bought the "offical" CD set from whoever
was selling it. I could get it much cheaper elsewhere, but wanted to
contribute money from time to time to help the project and the vendors
who supported it. However, I didn't want to pay that much for CDs of the
minor updates, so I usually got those from Cheap Bytes, or got a friend
with fast network access to get it for me. As a FreeBSD user, I found
this a useful way of doing business.
Will a company like Cheap Bytes really do that much damage to the
"official" vendor?
The only thing I'm concerned with _as_a_user_, is that anyone who
distributes CDs uses what the core team supports as "being FreeBSD". I'd
hate to see someone roll their own and call it FreeBSD.
--
"The determined programmer can write a FORTRAN program in any
language."
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