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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <55e18b$n3l@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32778065.41C67EA6@aristar.com> <3277ACE7.41C67EA6@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <3278D6E2.219F@usoft.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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. ;-)