Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 21:24:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net> Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>, jamescarr1984 <jamescarr1984@ntlworld.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rules Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104102115050.98209-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <200104110118.f3B1IAm09142@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net>
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I do not think there is such a limitation on FreeBSD ISO files. Why would
they allow you to download an ISO only to burn it to a blank CD if that
was the case.
They strongly recommend that you purchase a CD, but it is not
necessary. That just helps support development.
Soon I am going to be teaching some consultants more about Unix in a
little in-house course and I think I will burn a copy of my FreeBSD 4.2 CD
which came with the FreeBSD: Guide Corporate Networker's book, which is a
copy of the 1st CD you would purchase from Walnut Creek.
The people in the class can then try out Unix on a home PC and perhaps
learn to like FreeBSD. Most of the people in the class have to deal with
HP-UX or Solaris so FreeBSD is a little different, but it will give them a
great place to learn.
As for that book, if you want a copy of FreeBSD 4.2 and a good book for a
Windows environment, go ahead and get it. I have a copy and now that I
have to deal with a Windows world more in my new job it will come in
handy.
Also, to start a little BSD book rumor, I asked O'Reilly a few weeks back
about BSD related books and it sounds like one is in the works and if it
goes well they will want to publish more books on BSD.
I would not mind reading a book from Warner Losh or Jordan Hubbard. One I
would die to have is a guide to hacking the FreeBSD internals... how it
all works in a well written O'Reilly book so that I can take my limited C
knowledge and put it to use on FreeBSD.
Brennan Stehling - software developer and system administrator
my projects:
home.offwhite.net (free personal hosting)
www.greasydaemon.com (bsd search)
On 10 Apr 2001, Mark Sergeant wrote:
> From memory the only restrictions on iso's is for OpenBSD.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:15:29 -0700, Jeremiah Gowdy said:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
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