LibraNet has no policy concerning giving away their latest and
greatest.  I asked to be polite and cover us.  The problem is getting
a copy of the latest and greatest - you have to buy it before you can
copy it.  The copy we have in our library is 2.0r2, which is not yet
available for download.  It will be in a week or two, because they
are coming out with 2.7r2.  I will buy that and donate copies.  Jon,
who is LibraNet for our purposes, thought we have a great idea and
wishes us luck.  I have his email saying so in my folder on this
project.

RedHat did not restrict free copies of the software in the past.  I
do suggest we ask first or use the public copies.  They too come out
with updates so frequently that I can't see they would have a
problem, but M$ does own part of RedHat now.

I suggest we ask the distributors before we put them in the project. 
It is a good chance to ask for freebies to give away too.

Doug


--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 08:22 AM 8/27/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >RedHat 7.3 - 4 CDs (CD1-Install, CD2-Extras(?),
> >CD3(?), CD4-Docs) (Bill, I know you are familiar with
> >this as you made the excellent set for the BRLUG CD
> >library already.)
> >
> >Mandrake 8.2 - 3 CDs (CD1, CD2, CD3)
> >
> >Knoppix - 1 CD(?)
> >
> >LibraNet - X CDs?
> 
> Wait. I am confused now. Are we burning the full, commercial CDs?
> Can 
> library patrons burn these CDs legally? Can you burn the full Red
> Hat 
> distribution set and give it away? I know you can do that with the
> "open 
> source" ISOs, but what about the full distribution set? What about
> for 
> LibraNet?
> 
> I feel strongly that the users of the CDs should be able to copy
> and 
> distribute whatever they get from the libraries.
> 
> I want to be sure we are in full compliance with all of the
> licenses for 
> each of these distributions. I know we are pretty much kosher with
> Knoppix, 
> but what about Red Hat and LibraNet?
> 
> Regards, Dustin
> 
> 
> ---
> Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Puryear Information Technology
> Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting
> http://www.puryear-it.com
> 
> 
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