Re: Pirating Ubuntu?

["Matthew Gillen" <user=50@nabble.blu.org>]

 Dan Ritter wrote: 
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 04:35:42PM -0700, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
>> I have a very interesting and funny question to ask all of you.  Is it 
>> possible to pirate Ubuntu?  A friend of mine recently pointed me at a 
>> link to Best Buy's website and asked if it would be illegal for him to 
>> buy the disc, rip it, and place a torrent online of the item Best Buy 
>> is offering.  It is the "Complete Edition", which I am unsure what 
>> that means exactly.  See for yourself. 
>> http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8888563&st=ubuntu&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1211587312374
>> 
>> This is a very serious question and not to be taken lightly.  Perhaps 
>> if no one can point me in the right direction here, I might have to 
>> contact the Free Software Foundation :-)  Thanks! 
> 
> Well, it depends on what they're selling. 
> 
> The vast majority of it absolutely has to be GPL, LGPL, Artistic 
> and similar licenses. So you can copy all of that and distribute 
> it. 
> 
> Have they put anything else in the package? You might have to 
> strip out some garbage proprietary files.