From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 2:35:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6406F15485 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vallo@matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29731; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:34:24 +0300 (EET DST) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B4BBAC7; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:34:33 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:34:33 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Greg Lehey Cc: Steven Honson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making copys of the FreeBSD CD's Message-ID: <19990827123433.A9647@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <37C60CBC.4F5763D4@gorean.org> <199908270424.AAA10857@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <3.0.5.32.19990827164612.00866830@southcom.com.au> <19990827173419.Z483@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990827173419.Z483@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 05:34:19PM +0930 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 05:34:19PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I was planing on making a backup because I use the cd's quite a bit > > installing it onto servers at work, and I had quite a lot of trouble > > getting a copy of it where i am in the world. I did not realise that I > > would be breaching any copyrights by making a backup of a free operating > > system. > > No, you're not breaching copyright by making copies for backup > purposes. You would be breaching copyright by making copies for > distribution to other people. As I said above, I doubted your > motives, because people don't normally make backups of CDs. I've > taken a look at your web site, and I'm beginning to think that this > doubt was unfounded. > > I don't know why you should have difficulties getting hold of CDs > where you are, but if you need any, let me know. What exactly distribution means? Am I violating copyright doing two-three copies of the whole cd-set for giving away without any cost except the cost of writable cd's? I'm doing it for promoting FreeBSD from time to time. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message