Re: Debian on Infomagic CD
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.
>
You have never purchased a CD-ROM from I-Connect, did you? They do it just
like the humble user prefers it. The annoying thing about the InfoMagic
disks was that all programs out of non-free were present as *.rpm in
RedHat, as *.tgz in Slackware and as well as *.tar.gz as mirrored from
various FTP servers. This is/has been schizophrenic to my mind...
Regards, P. *8^)
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