Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

B Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:52:34AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
>
> > You might mean non-us ?, not non-free as non-free is a part of woody. 
> > Using jigdo you can get non-us, disk one :
> > http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r2/jigdo/i386/
> > --
> > Greg C. Madden
>
>
> non-free part of woody ?? I don't see this. I have the 6 + 1(update)
> Cds distribution of woody and it does not have any of the non-free
> packages that I use like gap or scilab etc etc. And these are the
> ones that are provided with source code too but alas under 
> gpl incompatible conditions.
>
> Non-US cds are available with lot of vendors and at many mirrors. But
> not a single Non-Free CD. 
> B Thomas

Umm, a major reason for a package going into non-free is a prohibtion on 
commercial redistribution.  It would probably be a major undertaking of 
a CD vendor to audit non-free to determine what they can actually 
distribute.  Given the 'margins' on CD sales, it is simply not worth it 
for them.

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