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"? =>
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First!
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<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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