Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 11:47:51 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: medukonis@tech-broker.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Distribute FreeBSD Message-ID: <200007031847.LAA36656@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <002201bfe453$b0eb6aa0$0200a8c0@amd500>
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On 02-Jul-00 medukonis@tech-broker.com wrote: > Dear Sir: > > Is it legal to distribute FreeBSD on cdrom to those withouth fast access to > the internet? If not what is involved in becoming a distributor of your > software. Thank you. From /COPYRIGHT: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. (Section 3 has been removed by a later update.) In plain English: yes you can distribute FreeBSD on cdrom. Note that you can't simply burn copies of the WC CD's as those CD's are copyright WC, but you can roll a release, add in whatever packages, etc. you want to the base system and design your own layout for a CD that you can then distribute. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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