From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 11:35:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt010nb9.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CFA15FB8 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:35:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt010nb9.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA72781; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:34:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:34:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt010nb9.san.rr.com To: Vallo Kallaste Cc: Greg Lehey , Steven Honson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making copys of the FreeBSD CD's In-Reply-To: <19990827123433.A9647@myhakas.matti.ee> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > 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? Probably yes, but I really doubt that WC Archive would sue you for it. (Of course, I don't represent them in any way.) Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'" - John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues, "I Don't Know" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message