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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sgigate.sgi.com!olivea!wetware!white.dogwood.com!white.dogwood.com!not-for-mail From: dave@white.dogwood.com (Dave Cornejo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is *everything* on the Walnut Creek CD redistributable? Date: 16 Mar 1996 18:01:18 -0800 Organization: Dogwood Media Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4ifrpe$ni4@white.dogwood.com> References: <Do3wsJ.714.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4i2ff3$16o@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4if303$ald@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: white.dogwood.com In article <4if303$ald@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, Jeff Aitken <jaitken@vt.edu> wrote: >A related question: If my employer purchased the FreeBSD-2.1.0 CD and >I want to make a copy for my personal use (so I don't have to borrow the >one from work all the time), is this legal? I figure that it is, since >WC is essentially charging for the time and effort required to create >the CD, but not for the software contained therein. Am I correct? It is probably not okay to copy the entire CD, that's bootlegging. Walnut Creek would have a compilation copyright on it's disc and also owns the rights to some of the programs on the disc (probably the viewer, indices, etc.). That part of the disc which is the FreeBSD distribution is certainly copyable though (i.e. the directories dists, packages, ports, etc.). -- Dave Cornejo There is nothing so subtle Dogwood Media as the obvious Fremont, California