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From: crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.5 CD-ROM missing stuff
Date: 3 Nov 1996 19:03:39 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Message-ID: <55iqab$gdt@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <32778065.41C67EA6@aristar.com> <3278D6E2.219F@usoft.nl> <55e18b$n3l@uriah.heep.sax.de> <327C281D.2781E494@FreeBSD.org>
Reply-To: crs@hamlet.lanl.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: hamlet.lanl.gov
In article <327C281D.2781E494@FreeBSD.org>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
= 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.
[...]
= > 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. :)
On the other hand, it reminded some (one, at least :) of us of some
things that were wanted and to install them later during a ppp session.
= 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
--
Best,
Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby "I'm the NRA!"
crs@swcp.com crs@hamlet.lanl.gov Life Member since 1965