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From: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is *everything* on the Walnut Creek CD redistributable?
Date: 16 Mar 1996 13:58:11 -0500
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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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
: > 
: > I assume that the Walnut Creek FreeBSD CD has no such problem.  Can
: > someone from WC confirm this?

: Confirm.  (I'm not from WC, but i think i know the Copyrights.)

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?
-- 
Jeff Aitken
jaitken@vt.edu