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Re: UpComing COMPUTAX



On Fri, 19 May 1995, Marc A. Volovic wrote:

> On Fri, 19 May 1995, guy keren wrote:
> 
> > as for the CDROMs coping, bale this out, since you may not just copy and 
> > redistribute a linux distribution, unless you want to do something illegal.
> 
> It is worth checking whether the distributions are copyrighted and protected.
> However, it should be possible to ftp the damn things and write THEM down
> as distributions.

As far as I know copyright laws - if it's GNU (and I'm almost sure all of 
them are GNU) you can freely reproduce it. From the other hand: you 
download slackware, mirrow sunsite for example and you got yourself very 
good distribution. Absolutely legal.
But as far as I got the picture here we should left CDROM producing since 
it will be pretty expencive - $30 for every disk since you get IM for 
$40+VAT here in Virus computers.

> > more over - not everyone has CDROM machines. it'll be usefull to keep a 
> > copy of the distribution on a linux machine, and using Limor schweitzer 
> > (how do you spell your name)'s suggestion, allow people to copy the 
> > distribution by a PC-to-PC direct connection (NOT ethernet! has to be 
> > some serial/parallel link to make it easy, or via an external hard drive, 
> > to make it fast).

C'mon...will you ever take your machine let's say from Rehovot to 
Jerusalem to the person you never saw in your life only to install some 
misterious OS? People will NEVER do it. BTW I do keep on my HDD Slackware 
sources so.....feel free...
yours, Sergei

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