From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 21:25:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51CB51543C for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 21:25:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10857; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:24:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199908270424.AAA10857@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Making copys of the FreeBSD CD's In-Reply-To: <37C60CBC.4F5763D4@gorean.org> from Doug at "Aug 26, 99 08:57:48 pm" To: Doug@gorean.org (Doug) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:24:04 -0400 (EDT) Cc: rishi@math.ohio-state.edu, grog@lemis.com, shonson@planetquake.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug wrote, > Rishikesh wrote: > > > > * Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.com) [990826 22:24]: > > > > > > If you look at the back of the booklet, the last line reads: > > > > > > This CDROM copyright (c) 1999 Walnut Creek CDROM > > > > > > FreeBSD can be freely copied and redistributed. The CD-ROMs may not, > > > and I doubt your motives. I can't stop you from breaching the > > > copyright, but you can be sure as hell I won't help you. > > > > > > Greg > > > > I wonder what is the difference between the two? > > It's the difference between content and formatting. To take the argument > to the extreme case, you cannot copyright the english alphabet, but people > can copyright works that make use of it. It's how the letters are arranged > that make the work copyrightable. Same goes with the CD's. All of the > content is available for free, but WC Archive puts it together in a handy > format for you. That format is copyrightable, and you can't just copy it > and use it for your own commercial pursuits. > > Doug (not a lawyer) I believe you are trying to explain something known as a 'compilation copyright.' -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message