I know - I've just reviewed the site again, and realised that I (rather stupidly) misread/misinterpreted it the first time. I suppose that distributing it anyway would go against Kirk's request, so I'd better not bother. However, I will be getting ahold of an official copy for myself ;).
--- Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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. >> >> _____________________________________________________________ >> --- >> http://mail.secureroot.com/ - free mailbox for hackers and geeks >> >> _____________________________________________________________ >> You deserve a better email address! Get personalized email @yourname >> or @yourcompany from Everyone.net --> http://www.everyone.net?tag >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message >> _____________________________________________________________ --- http://mail.secureroot.com/ - free mailbox for hackers and geeks _____________________________________________________________ You deserve a better email address! Get personalized email @yourname or @yourcompany from Everyone.net --> http://www.everyone.net?tag To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
