From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 14 5:40:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3AF637B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 05:40:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rapier.smartspace.co.za) Received: (qmail 18332 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Mar 2001 13:39:55 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:39:55 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copyright issues regarding FreeBSD ISOs/CDs Message-ID: <20010314153955.A17985@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <200103141336.f2EDaZ215574@ns1.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103141336.f2EDaZ215574@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:36:34AM +1300 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2001-03-15 (02:36), Dan Langille wrote: > The FreeBSD CDs have a "copyright BSDi" on them. I assume this > means people can't just copy them. That would be a violation of > copyright. However, they can do so with the ISO images. After all, > that's what they're there for isn't it? Do the ISOs have a copyright on > them? > > So if someone burns an image from an ISO and sells that, there is no > copyright violation. But if someone creates an ISO from an official > FreeBSD CD, and then burns a CD from that, they have violated > copyright. > > Correct? As far as I'm aware, BSDi (like WC before them) retain (compilation) copyright on all the ISO layouts, but give out the copy and distribute the first ISO image. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message