Re: Debian on Infomagic CD
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Karl Ferguson wrote:
> >
> > > The whole idea for the "non-free" area is that it belongs to programs with
> > > difficult copyright notices such as it's not to be distributed etc. I
> > > seriously doubt that any CD manufacturer will include it on a distributed CD
> > > because it may well break copyright laws.
> > >
> > This isn't exactly true. A package can go into non-free if commercial
> > use is not allowed. A CD manufacturer can then put the package on the CD
> > if they make a notice that commercial use is prohibited. At least this
> > is how I understand it.
>
> My understanding is that producing a CD for sale (which I do) is a
> commercial use of the software and therefore not allowed. Pine, on the
> other hand, is in non-free, but I can distribute it because it's only
> restriction is that I may not put pine on a CD with proprietary software
> (this restriction is enough to place it in non-free). It is for each
> re-distributor to decide which of these packages they can use. That is the
> reason they are in non-free to begin with.
I was thinking along the line of something like cucipop, which if I
remember correctly is free for personal use, but not for isp's to use and
it therefore was put in non-free, but it could probably be distributed on
a cd, couldn't it?
Shaya
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