From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 20:56:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A4E37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:56:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143BA43FDF for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:56:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9BD4C5269F; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:26:10 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:26:10 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Alex de Kruijff Message-ID: <20030628035610.GG29066@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030626115328.4083dbd8.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <20030626105004.GA77182@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1giRMj6yz/+FOIRq" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030626105004.GA77182@dds.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Miguel Mendez cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can the FreeBSD handbook be sold? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 03:56:05 -0000 --1giRMj6yz/+FOIRq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --1giRMj6yz/+FOIRq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+/RHaIubykFB6QiMRAtTsAJ98Fsjw6VXUuTS2+g7taMTdtBwIHQCgkGUo ujkXxIW3wbFL3a9ulbRcq4I= =uf5c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1giRMj6yz/+FOIRq--