milenium moon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mm> I come from Indonesia. I want ask you about mm> licensing/limitation of use from "non-US/main" section mm> that include in Debian 2.2 Official CDs. If in my CDs mm> contain "non-US/main" section (application/software) mm> is legal or ilegal if I instal to my computer (on one mm> computer) and how if I want install to more than one mm> computer, is this legal or ilegal ? mm> mm> Please explain to me, this section confiusing for me.
Files in non-US/main have free licenses (e.g. GPL, Artistic, &c.) but can't be directly exported from the United States, generally because they contain cryptographic software. You should check your local restrictions on the use of such software, but beyond that there should be no legal issues with duplicating the CDs or installing the software on multiple machines. (Files in non-free have various restrictive licenses such that this condition probably doesn't hold. Files in contrib are free, but generally require non-free software to usefully work. An official CD set should only contain free software, so this shouldn't be a problem.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell