[tug-board] distributing the CD as an image for download

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:12:26 +0000 (GMT)


Barbara Beeton writes:
 > do we know this person is going to burn just a single cd?  if the
 > material on the cd is made available as a file on the tug box,
 > on ctan, at cambridge, etc., what's to prevent someone from burning
 > a master and then having it copied and selling it?
nothing. but they could do that just by taking a copy of the CD and
sucking off the contents. "CD -> file"  is as easy as "file -> CD"

 > at the very least, such a file should have the non-free (defined
 > exactly as karl and phil might define it <g>) material removed to
 > prevent any licensing questions from arising.
yes, in fact TL4b has the `obvious' stuff removed (see list appended), 
for O'Reilly.

sebastian

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