Hey David, On 10/06/2008, at 9:22 PM, David Latham wrote:
> Dear Group, > > I would like to start selling opensolaris media ( DVDs and or CDs ) > on > my website ( www.thelinuxcdstore.com ). I have a couple of questions: > > 1. Would this be acceptable in terms of licensing and project > guidelines? > > 2. Is there a public list of online retailers that I can join. > > My plan is to Download ISO images of DVDs and CDs for the most popular > distrubutions and then verify against a checksum provided by the > project > every DVD or CD I sell prior to shipping. > > I offer a custom download service ( free download - only pay for the > cd, > packaging and shipping ) to those who order a special. I have a > standard price for CDs and DVDs regardless of whether or not I have to > download an iso on request. > > I appreciate any advice you might have. If I should just forget about > it then please let me know. Awesome, thanks heaps for providing this service! As someone also living in NZ, I can appreciate the pain of the current set of broadband plans on offer over here. The various licenses that cover OpenSolaris 2008.05 all allow for re-distribution, and because you're redistributing it unmodified, then I don't believe there are any problems with that (cc'ing Dan, my boss, so he's in the loop on this too). In terms of a public list that online retailers can join, there's nothing at the moment though I agree that some page should exist to detail some of the download options. I know Stephen's been keeping a list of mirrors on his blog http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/2008_05_more_ways_to that would be good to get up on opensolaris.com, along with other options for getting the CD. I'll follow up on this so that we can make sure it's in the plans for the next rev of the website. Thanks! Glynn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
