Ottavio Caruso wrote:
Elive <http://www.elivecd.org/gb/Download/Stable/>, based on Debian, requires a donation, however small, to allow downloading the stable version. I wonder if this legally sound.
They don't *require* a donation. Though, their page does attempt to make one feel bad if they don't make a donation. From the same page you linked to:
- 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. We recommend that you verify the MD5sum and download it with 'wget -c' because sometimes this download stalls.
Then they provide links to two "slow" servers. So, it does appear possible to get the software with no donation at all.
-- Jamin W. Collins