Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:54:58 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy <kmacy@netapp.com> To: sa-tmp <radium@secureroot.com> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ancient BSD sources Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10203021053480.2092-100000@cranford> In-Reply-To: <20020302185043.9A4CA2757@sitemail.everyone.net>
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This is the exact quote from Kirk's website: The compilation of this archive is copyright 1998 by Marshall Kirk McKusick. You may freely redistribute it to anyone else. However, I would appreciate your buying your own copy to help cover the costs that I incurred in producing the archive. -Kip On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, sa-tmp wrote: > I remember seeing a message on his site that distribution is OK - I didn't know that it was copyrighted. > > Why does it cost so much anyway? It seems a bit much for something that's supposed to be free. > > By the way, someone told me that the FreeBSD DVD contained the old BSD source code. If've checked the FBSD DVD site, but I can't tell if it contains everything Kirk's 4-CD archive does - perhaps not if it's copyrighted :(. > > --- David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 05:11:43AM -0800, sa-tmp wrote: > >> If I were to buy a copy of the Ancient BSD sources CD set (costs $99), > >> would anyone be interested in buying copies [CD-R versions] of the > >> archive for, say $20? > > > >Are you're thinking of doing this with the CDs that Krik distributes? > >If so, the compilation of the material is copyright so you'd have > >to be quite careful not to violate that copyright. > > > > David. > > _____________________________________________________________ > --- > http://mail.secureroot.com/ - free mailbox for hackers and geeks > > _____________________________________________________________ > You deserve a better email address! Get personalized email @yourname > or @yourcompany from Everyone.net --> http://www.everyone.net?tag > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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