On Thursday, 26 June 2003 at 12:50:04 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:53:28AM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I came across this: >> >> http://store.fultus.com/product_info.php?cPath=5_10&products_id=1 >> >> These guys are selling a pdf version of the handbook for 35 bucks a pop. >> Is that legal? Because, if it is, I'll wget the online doc, pipe it to a >> pdf creator and sell it for $25 ;-P >> >> I'm just curious about the status of documentation. > > I beleave the handbook has the same licence as the system, which is BSD. > As long as they don't act against this licence then its legal. And there > is a lot you are allowed to do.
Yes, it's legal. I don't understand why anybody would pay this kind of money, though. As it says at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html, you can download it for free from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.pdf.bz2. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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