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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5 CD-ROM missing stuff
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 21:05:33 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>

J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> Willem Wals <walsw@usoft.nl> wrote:
> 
> > > Somethings may have been omitted from the CD because of copyright
> > > issues imposed by the authors or export munition restrictions.
> 
> > Yes, but that accounts for Netscape serveral others but there are a
> > number of free distributable packages that are missing as well.
> 
> But these _were_ omitted due to copyright issues etc.  Free != free,
> some software is ``freeer'' (:-) than other, so you cannot sell it on
> a CDROM.  Alas, even things like kermit belong into this category.

And I forgot to remove them from the INDEX file, which is what's
*really* causing all this confusion.  People just didn't see entries for
the packages they didn't have before. :)

Needless to say, I did it right for the most recent FreeBSD CD
(2.2-961014-SNAP) and, now that it's branded in my brain, I hope not to
forget for future CDs. :-)

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project