From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 2 10:55:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx01-a.netapp.com (mx01-a.netapp.com [198.95.226.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0FB537B405 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:55:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from frejya.corp.netapp.com (frejya [10.10.20.91]) by mx01-a.netapp.com (8.11.1/8.11.1/NTAP-1.2) with ESMTP id g22It0300378; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:55:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from cranford-be.eng (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by frejya.corp.netapp.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/NTAP-1.4) with ESMTP id g22It0Zg028951; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:55:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (kmacy@localhost) by cranford-be.eng (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g22Isxq03919; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:54:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:54:58 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy To: sa-tmp Cc: David Malone , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ancient BSD sources In-Reply-To: <20020302185043.9A4CA2757@sitemail.everyone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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