On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 03:25:52PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > | Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, or by mutual > > | agreement: > > | (a) In free-of-charge or at-cost distributions by non-profit concerns; > > | (b) In free-of-charge distributions by for-profit concerns; > > | (c) Inclusion in a CD-ROM collection of free-of-charge, shareware, or > > | non-proprietary software for which a fee may be charged for the > > | packaged distribution. > > > > This does not allow, say, selling a linux distribution including pine > > on disks (I know of at least one vendor who sells debian stored on > > IDE hard disks instead of CD-rom sets, which they should be allowed > > to be continued). > > Nor on Zips, on CD-RW, on PD, on DVD, on tape... > > I can't believe that they are capable of including such a > restriction after all the hassles, and all the input they must > have had. Argh, you have a point---did you send them a diff with "or similar media" inserted between the words "CD-ROM" and "collection"? => -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Cylord> Would it be acceptable to debian policy if we inserted a crontab by default into potato that emailed bill.gates@microsoft.com every morning with an email that read, "Don't worry, linux is a fad..."
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