Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:13:41PM +0100, James Finch wrote:could uk librarys lend debian? make things difficult for microsoftYes, they can (Main and Contrib at least). The GPL allows for infinite redistribution. Non-free would be too much legal effort for a library to go through.-- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
I should think that first-time users would not worry that non-free .debs were not included in the distribution. Is there any non-free software in the distribution CD ISO files? If there is, is it possible to produce a set of ISOs that do not contain any non-free software?
Another thought - the number of CDs (including source code) must be around 15 for Woody 3.0. Would it be sensible for a library to offer the loan of, say, the first two binary CDs? I think this would be enough to install a reasonable desktop system with X, Gnome, KDE and a number of applications. Is the corresponding source code on the first two source CDs? If so, this would mean lending out 4 CDs - much more manageable.
Chris -- Chris Lale <ctlale@netscape.net> Using a PC running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 and Netscape 7.