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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5 CD-ROM missing stuff
Date: 1 Nov 1996 23:31:23 GMT
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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.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)