From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 1 20:46:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA26457 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 20:46:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA26441 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 20:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-127.camalott.com [208.229.74.127]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA31785; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 22:47:00 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA03114; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 22:18:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 22:18:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809020318.WAA03114@detlev.UUCP> To: nick.hibma@jrc.it CC: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Nick Hibma on Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:40:37 +0200 (MET DST)) Subject: Re: Aladdin Ghostscript License and FreeBSD CD? From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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. > This last remark is an eye opener. I fully agree. Why don't we ask Aladdin? I think that finding out what they want done is probably the best way to go, to make sure that no toes are trampled either legally or ethically. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message