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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!garnet.bmr.gov.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!caen!ub!jcort From: jcort@ub.us.itd.umich.edu (Jonathon Cortmaior) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is *everything* on the Walnut Creek CD redistributable? Date: 27 Mar 1996 02:11:48 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4ja854$iji@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> References: <Do3wsJ.714.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4i2ff3$16o@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4if303$ald@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.us.itd.umich.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jeff Aitken (jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote: : J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : : richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: : : > There's a discussion going on elsewhere as to whether you can buy a : : > Linux CD, install the system, and then give away the CD. Apparently This is VERY rare. Most of the Linux CD's you'll find are simple copies of the various archive sites (sunsite, tsx-11, etc). The only CD I've run across that had proprietary stuff on it was the Caldera Network Desktop (preview II) CD. IT happened to have some actual commercial software on it. But everyother disk I've seen has basically been a dump of some site.. --