[email protected] wrote:
Why not simply sell the CDs...?
Because selling copies of OpenBSD would mean distributing copies of nonfree software and distributing copies of installers that install nonfree software by default. LibertyBSD's author says OpenBSD does both of these things, pointing to http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub.diff?r1=1.653&r2=1.654&f=h and http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub.diff?r1=1.653&r2=1.654&f=h respectively.
At the same time, distributing a nonfree copy of an OS (regardless of price), namely inviting users to "download the cd56.iso (without source)" -- doesn't strike me as a way to provide users with a way to be "sure that there are no non-free blobs lurking in the depths of your system" (quoting the language on http://libertybsd.net/).
