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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Aladdin Ghostscript License and FreeBSD CD?
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 08:34:10 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <1326.904635966@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 1, 98 00:45:47 am
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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.)
...

Perhaps a word of clarification from Aladdin would be useful. In
fact i see two clauses (in bold down) which i think are relevant
to the magazine case:

>         (ii) Distributing the Program on removable computer-readable media,
> provided that the files containing the Program are reproduced entirely and
> verbatim on such media, THAT ALL INFORMATION ON SUCH MEDIA BE
> REDISTRIBUTABLE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES WITHOUT CHARGE, and that SUCH 
> MEDIA ARE DISTRIBUTED BY THEMSELVES (EXCEPT FOR ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION)
> INDEPENDENT OF ANY OTHER PRODUCT OR SERVICE.  Examples of such media include
> CD-ROM, magnetic tape, and optical storage media.  (This is not intended to
> be an 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.)

now the first one is no problem for the FreeBSD CD#1 and i think it is
there just because people tend to stick a restrictive copyright on
everything. E.g. one of the think i have to make clear to the libraries
i send the 2.2.6 CDs that WC generously donated (thanks again!) is that
people _CAN_ copy the content of the disks.

The second one is a bit more critical i agree, but killing 5.10
from the CD set is a bit overkill. Can you make it go into another
disk (not #1) of the set instead ? I think a time will come (if
not already there) when all packages will just not fit into disk#1.

> 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.

	cheers
	luigi

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