Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ? - margins
hi ya travis
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Travis Crump wrote:
> > 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.
margin's are very very good ... $0.10 glass that is resold for $1 or $3 or
$5 each ... and no license fee or royalty or warranty or support or blah
either
- but granted one does need to pay attention to the licensing
terms
- i think the problem is the skill=set needed to review
and allow or not allow that app to get onto your own "non-free"
cd that will be used by others
- in the case of the original poster ... and any of us, whom presumably
will NOT resell/resdistribute it etc... would not have to worry too
much about making our own local copy of non-free aps so that all
machines we built will all have the same packages and from
the "fixed/stable" cdrom vs the newer updates that we didn't test yet
- if "/var/cache/apt/archives" fits on one or 2 CD's ... i'm thinking
that's all the packages that is needed to clone that box ??
- is the archives directory the same structure as the
main *.deb repository ( i say/think: nope, it's not )
- make an itty-bitty script to go thru apt/archives
and install um in order ... :-)
- fun stuff to "get around" the debian way :-0
c ya
alvin
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