This is the exact quote from Kirk's website:
The compilation of this archive is copyright 1998 by Marshall Kirk McKusick.
You may freely redistribute it to anyone
else. However, I would appreciate your buying your own copy to help cover the
costs that I incurred in producing the archive.
-Kip
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, sa-tmp wrote:
> I remember seeing a message on his site that distribution is OK - I didn't know that
>it was copyrighted.
>
> Why does it cost so much anyway? It seems a bit much for something that's supposed
>to be free.
>
> By the way, someone told me that the FreeBSD DVD contained the old BSD source code.
>If've checked the FBSD DVD site, but I can't tell if it contains everything Kirk's
>4-CD archive does - perhaps not if it's copyrighted :(.
>
> --- David Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 05:11:43AM -0800, sa-tmp wrote:
> >> If I were to buy a copy of the Ancient BSD sources CD set (costs $99),
> >> would anyone be interested in buying copies [CD-R versions] of the
> >> archive for, say $20?
> >
> >Are you're thinking of doing this with the CDs that Krik distributes?
> >If so, the compilation of the material is copyright so you'd have
> >to be quite careful not to violate that copyright.
> >
> > David.
>
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