> Elive <http://www.elivecd.org/gb/Download/Stable/>, based on Debian,
> requires a donation, however small, to allow downloading. I wonder if
> this legally sound.
>
> Ottavio
>From the page you referred to above:
"If you don't care about the future of Elive, and you really think its
possible to live off nothing, or you just can't possibly make a minor
donation, then you can download Elive from a slow server."