Andy Moore wrote: > Jima wrote: > >> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Andy Moore wrote: >> >> >>> I'm bringing my CDs of LN2.8 if anybody wants to copy them. I won't >>> have a burner there but somebody else is bound to have one. It's 2 >>> CDs if you were going to supply your own discs. >>> >> >> >> Nice. :) >> I'm still not touching the legal ramifications. :P >> >> Jima >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> > I tried to find something that said I couldn't do it on both the CDs > and their website. The only licensing stuff I could find referred to > a lack of warranty and pointed to the GPL. > > I'll keep looking but as far as I can tell (IANAL), I'm ok. > > -- > The Wandering Dru > aka Andy Moore > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > OK, from what I can tell, the problem comes from the OTHER software that is packaged with the distro eg. Acrobat, Netscape,Turboprint, etc. These have proprietary/BSD/Artistic licenses. Libranet aquired permission to distribute these things with the distro but can't assign that permission to other parties. So technically, to be perfectly legal, I would have to go in and remove all that crap and then repackage the distro if I wanted to "legally" make copies. They don't have a problem with installing on multiple computers tho. I could see it working, we'd just have to edit the sources list to point to the debian repositories/LN updates only. --Dru _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list