From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 31 02:47:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA23508 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 02:47:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA23477; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 02:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA05418; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:46:36 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199707310846.KAA05418@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Advice sought on PnP configuration To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:46:36 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199707310658.XAA00481@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Jul 30, 97 11:58:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am sure someone can volunteer a postscrip version of the document 8) Could someone comment on the copyright issues ? Many docs on the net say explicitly that you (and everybody else) can make your own copy, but you cannot redistribute them without explicit authorization. Of course this is the most stupid restriction they can put, but go and convince these people... Clearly things are different if someone ships me a postscript copy of the file, or if someone sells a CD with all the docs found on the net. The copyright should at least try to make a difference between the two cases. In any cases this is a real shame. As I told amancio, I have collected quite a few data sheets (many in PDF format) about the PC hardware, and it would be great if future freebsd distributions could include those files on the CD. Perhaps I have to talk to Jordan about this and see what he can do... Apart from FreeBSD: here at the university, students are trying to produce a CD with didactic matherial, and this would include data sheets of sample hardware devices, if there were not such stupid restrictions. The last time I tried to get a written authorization from various manufacturers, all of them said "of course you can make copies of the data sheets and distribute them to students, but it is a problem for us to put this in writing..." Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________