From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jul 7 21:25:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4ve.mailsrvcs.net (smtp4vepub.gte.net [206.46.170.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA7837B403; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 21:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-135-226.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.135.226]) by smtp4ve.mailsrvcs.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA51499357; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 04:24:14 GMT Message-ID: <3B47E06D.32067E46@bellatlantic.net> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 00:24:13 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Kris Kennaway , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Jordan Hubbard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com, tedm@toybox.placo.com, ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <20010707081731.952F7380F@overcee.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net>, Sergey Babkin writes: > > > > >If the FreeBSD Foundation is an existing entity now, maybe we > > >can just change the license for the CD images to "not for resale" > > >unless the distributor signs an agreement with the Foundation ? First, I want to say that after Jordan's explanation I agree that this is not a worty idea, at least for now. So the further is just for a more clear explanation. > > Why on _earth_ would we make it so hard for people to get hold > > of a media copy of FreeBSD, when absolutely nothing prevents For example, to help fund the release engineering process. > > me or anybody else from rolling a net distribution ? If buying the rights to the "official" distribution is cheaper, why would anyone want to redo it ? > And if some organization is funding developers to work on FreeBSD full > time, then I personally would go out of my way to help them too, should > they need something. (several spring to mind) > > All this hot air about "protecting" the .iso's is the *least* of our It's not about protecting. It's about financiallly stimulating more organizations to fund developers to work on FreeBSD. The ISO image distribution rights don't have to be exchanged for money, they may just as well (and better) be exchanged for such support. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message