Notes for commercial CD-ROM vendors ----------------------------------- Thanks to the following people for helping me put this together: Adam richter Alan Cox Brad Migley Daniel Quinlan Patrick J. Volkerding 1) The first thing to be aware of is that people who write free software want people to be able to use it. If you find that someone's copyright is preventing you from placing their work on a CD, talk to them about it. There is every chance that they'll give you permission to include their work. Author's aren't trying to prevent distribution, just stealing. 2) When you make a CD-ROM distribution of metalab's linux archive, please be aware that you are creating a commercial distribution while metalab provides a noncommercial service. This affects your legal right to distribute certain pieces of software without paying royalties to the author(s). Here's a list of software this affects - please tell me if you know of any others. This is not an authoritative list by any means, so there are likely omissions. C-Kermit is included in slackware, MCC, and debian, so your right to make commercial CD-ROMs of those distributions is limited - be sure to remove kermit from them. C-Kermit is also on metalab in /pub/Linux/apps/comm. You should remove it before creating a CD. Mosaic is also included in slackware (and perhaps debian - I don't know) and appears on metalab in /pub/Linux/system/Network/info-systems/Mosaic. ncftp is in /pub/Linux/apps/comm/term/term, /pub/Linux/apps/comm/termstuff, /pub/Linux/system/Network/file-transfer, and the je distribution. The version in slackware is included by permission, but you should ask Mike Gleason (mgleason@cse.unl.edu) for permission to include it on your CDROM to be sure. Versions of xv >= 3.0 can't be distributed - it is in /pub/Linux/X11/xapps/graphics/viewers. The version in Slackware has been okayed for distribution, but you should ask John Bradley (bradley@cis.upenn.edu) for his permission to be sure. Versions of getty_ps <= 2.0.7e can't be used, but it is being moved to GPL. Chimera can't be distributed as it's derived from Mosaic. It is in /pub/Linux/system/Network/info-systems. Both trn and gated are borderline - decide for yourself. trn is in slackware (and probably other distributions) and /pub/Linux/system/Mail/news. Gated is under /pub/Linux/system/Network/sunacm and /pub/Linux/system/Network/daemons. Many of the Linux logos can't be distributed commercially. Those are in /pub/Linux/logos. Gated requires commercial distributors to join the gated consortium. Apparently this is free. Distributing Netscape is not allowed. Netscape is in /pub/Linux/system/Network/info-systems. I don't think you can charge for distributing spice3, but I'm not positive. It's in /pub/Linux/apps/circuits. When you what to add MuPAD on a CD-ROM Distribution first contact MuPAD-distribution@uni-paderborn.de. You can't distribute mSQL without permission from Bambi@Bond.edu.au. The giftools program in /pub/Linux/apps/graphics/convert is shareware and can't be bundled with other products. At least the hpcd support in netpbm has commercial redistribution explicitly disallowed, so be carefull. It's in /pub/Linux/apps/grahics/convert. Most web browsers cannot be distributed. At least Chimera, Netscape, and Mosaic fall into this.. check in /pub/Linux/system/Network/info-systems for them. Leave out /pub/Linux/distributione/je/NON_COMMERCIAL_USE_ONLY for obvious reasons. package location status ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4va X11/xapps/graphics/viewers noncommercial dist Maelstrom games/video noncommercial afio system/Backup nonprofit agetty system/Serial nonprofit archive system/Network/info-systems noncommercial bzip utils/compress patent problems? copa X11/xapps/graphics/viewers noncommercial dist ferret utils/text noncommercial glimpse utils/text noncommercial glimpseHTTP utils/text noncommercial irit X11/xapps/graphics noncommercial lcc devel/lang/c noncommercial, research loaddog system/Misc noncommercial net3d games/x11/networked noncommercial dist pflnx devel/lang/fortran noncommercial, academic portato system/Status noncommercial rman system/Manual-pagers noncommercial swi prolog devel/lang/prolog/swi noncommercial tacg apps/biology noncommercial tkman system/Manual-pagers noncommercial xautolock X11/xutils nonprofit xfax X11/xapps/comm noncommercial xforms X11/devel noncommercial xsql apps/databases noncommercial xsox apps/sound/convert noncommercial 3) If you include metalab's Linux archive on a CD-ROM, please tell me when you do so and keep me informed of new releases. I work hard on this site and would like to know how many people are using it. If I get enough responses to this, I'll maintain a list of CD-ROM versions of metalab, so please include price and a contact address if you'd like to be included. Erik ewt@metalab.unc.edu