From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 15:16:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cluck.stealthchickens.org (cluck.stealthchickens.org [209.192.217.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B2D937B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@osdn.com) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (root@cluck.stealthchickens.org [209.192.217.153]) by cluck.stealthchickens.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3AMGnb32542; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:16:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mij@osdn.com) Received: by guinness.osdn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A1086106; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:16:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:16:48 -0400 From: Jim Mock To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: jamescarr1984 , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rules Message-ID: <20010410181647.A4014@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: mij@osdn.com References: <009b01c0c1ec$1ec5dc60$94beff3e@host1> <001801c0c1fa$fd311150$035778d8@sherline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <001801c0c1fa$fd311150$035778d8@sherline.net>; from jgowdy@home.com on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:15:29PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 at 13:15:29 -0700, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > I am setting up a small company which downloads linux/unix > > distributions, burns them onto cd and sells copies at a small fee. > > Is this legal to do, am I braking any rules or policies? What we > > are aiming to save time and aid frustration for users who only have > > dial-up access. > > Well I thought the FreeBSD ISO image belongs to Walnut > Creek/BSDi/whoever/new. You can make your own original ISO image, but > I don't believe you can just resell theirs. FreeBSD is free, the ISO > images are copyrighted, I believe. I may be wrong, but we covered > something of this nature at the San Diego BSD User meet. You're mostly wrong. Only disks 2-4 can't be copied as-is. You can do whatever you like with disc 1 (that's why there is only a disc 1 ISO). - jim -- - jim mock - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message