Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 00:06:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr (CHOI Junho) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aladdin Ghostscript License and FreeBSD CD? Message-ID: <199809020006.RAA07809@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <wkzpck1ei7.fsf@jazz.snu.ac.kr> from "CHOI Junho" at Sep 1, 98 04:25:04 pm
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> How about this? (after your quotation of my original mail)
>
> > 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.)
>
> 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?
See what Luigi said:
] 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.
It's a case of "the book is included with the CDROM", not "the CDROM is
included with the book". Since it is available seperately, it's not a
problem.
The Alladin license, from their rationale, was to prohibit a company
requiring a purchase of a book to get the CDROM containing the code.
Per my other posting, I don't believe this section is applicable, in
any case, until you have proven that the other three interpretations
aren't applicable first.
What problem do you have with the Alladin license that makes you
prefer the inclusion of the other (inferior) ghostscript?
This sounds more like a political brow-beating to encourage the use of
GPL'ed code... please tell me I'm wrong.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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