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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.
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