Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de> writes:
except that the openbsd cd layout is not BSD licensed. you are not
allowed to burn the iso and sell that.
It's the layout of the official CD sets that's explicitly not BSD
licensed, isn't it?
The official CD sets contain a collection of packages plus matching
archives of complete ports and source trees as well as the files
needed for a basic install, while the installNN.iso you can download
from the mirrors is just the install files for that platform.
If I understand this correctly the OP could conceivably download
installNN.iso for the various archs and burn to CD to sell, but I
don't see them getting too many takers unless they put in some effort
to make their offering a bit more attractive.
There are several ways to put together an attractive OpenBSD-based
offering, including quite a number that would not be seen as eating
into the project's main source of income.
- Peter
I think this whole issue raises another fact.
Anyone buying a CD is a "client".
Any "client" that has his/her wits, will not continue to be a "client"
and will drop into the pool of any other OpenBSD user, upgrading from
the main site or buying project CD's, just like any other "user".
Anyone that remains a "client", will need to continue to buy those CD's
and support to remain up to date.
If the seller kicks back to OpenBSD, great.
If they don't, bad, but still it would be free advertising to OpenBSD,
which may bring in paying (to OpenBSD, not seller) "users" to OpenBSD.
And , of course :)
::put on asbestos suit::
They could even advertise their product on this list.
That wouldn't bother anyone, right?
::remove asbestos suit::
(In case anyone doesn't get it, that was a joke)
Chris Bennett
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