Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 00:46:06 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: CHOI Junho <junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aladdin Ghostscript License and FreeBSD CD? Message-ID: <1326.904635966@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "01 Sep 1998 16:25:04 %2B0900." <wkzpck1ei7.fsf@jazz.snu.ac.kr>
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> > exhaustive list.) An example of a distribution that does not
> > fall under this section is a CD-ROM included in a book or
> > magazine. (This is not an exhaustive enumeration.)
>
> I agree on WC FreeBSD CDROM set. But CD with books("The Complete
> FreeBSD") or some FreeBSD cover CD of magazines in the world may have
> a problem I think. Do I misunderstand?
I still think that "The Complete FreeBSD" still falls squarely under
the category of "accompanying docs" rather than the context in which I
believe Aladdin meant it. They don't want publishers like SAMS just
slipping a "Ghoscript CD!" into one of their generic books on
publishing as an add-on bonus, but they don't mind it going into
legitimate, self-sufficient CD products which may (optionally) also
have some printed documentation available.
The case where it's a cover disk for some magazine is, indeed,
specifically excluded I see now and I'd say that's reason alone to
just mark Ghostcript 5x as "NO_CDROM" from this point onwards, my
reasoning being that we *like* FreeBSD going out on people's magazine
covers and it's frequently the easiest thing for Walnut Creek CDROM to
do to give them CD #1 of whatever FreeBSD product they currently have
and suggest that as the cover disc. I'd hate to lose that flexibility
over one package.
- Jordan
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