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Date:      Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:26:10 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can the FreeBSD handbook be sold?
Message-ID:  <20030628035610.GG29066@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030626105004.GA77182@dds.nl>
References:  <20030626115328.4083dbd8.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <20030626105004.GA77182@dds.nl>

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On Thursday, 26 June 2003 at 12:50:04 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:53:28AM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I came across this:
>>
>> http://store.fultus.com/product_info.php?cPath=5_10&products_id=1
>>
>> These guys are selling a pdf version of the handbook for 35 bucks a pop.
>> Is that legal? Because, if it is, I'll wget the online doc, pipe it to a
>> pdf creator and sell it for $25 ;-P
>>
>> I'm just curious about the status of documentation.
>
> I beleave the handbook has the same licence as the system, which is BSD.
> As long as they don't act against this licence then its legal. And there
> is a lot you are allowed to do.

Yes, it's legal.  I don't understand why anybody would pay this kind
of money, though.  As it says at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html,
you can download it for free from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.pdf.bz2.

Greg
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