Re: [TCLUG:10063] ISO copyrights (was:RedHat/Sparc mirror)

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

Yet another reason to love debian.

Officially mantained copylefted ISO images. :)

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 06:39:36 -0800
> From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <carls@agritech.com>
> Reply-To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:10063] ISO copyrights (was:RedHat/Sparc mirror)
> 
> >> > I can burn a RedHat official CD and give it away freely right?
> >> Of course.  You can even charge the same thing RedHat does.  RedHat
> >> doesn't have any more rights to the intellectual property on that disc
> >> than you do.
> >> 
> >> The wonders of GPL...
> >Couldn't you charge as much as you want? (Not that anyone would *buy* it
> >from you, but theoretically...)
>         the software on the CD may be free; but is the ISO image itself
> copylefted? OpenBSD has a policy of not providing ISOs of its CD; partly
> because the 'image layout' is copyrighted by Theo DeRaadt (the maintainer).
> if you want to produce your own ISO of OpenBSD, you can; but you have to
> make it yourself, you can't just dd Theo's image.
> 
> Carl Soderstrom
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