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01-14-2005, 12:00 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2004
Posts: 10
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Legal stuff
Hi ,
If I bought a powerpack disc.
Is it legal to distribute my powerpack 10.1 disc to my friends.
How abt if i don't give them the disk and just install it in their system?
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01-14-2005, 12:25 AM
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Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Spokane, WA
Distribution: Debian 6.0
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No it isn't.
Read the Mandrake license about the power pack CD's.
The only "free" cd's are the first 3. Logic follows this even when you want to download it from there website. They only offer the first 3 cd's.
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01-14-2005, 12:58 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2004
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But how abt installing on my friends system
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01-14-2005, 01:04 AM
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Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Spokane, WA
Distribution: Debian 6.0
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I still dont think thats legal since Mandrake makes a profit to pay its employees to develop or maintain software for Mandrake.
Do what your concious says. If you think its not legal then it most likely isn't.
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01-14-2005, 11:07 AM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: macOS, OpenBSD
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http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/legal-faq/#license
Read questions 3-11
Shortly stated, you cannot, because that cd, or those cds, have 3rd-party licenses that are not the GPL or similar, and may prohibit the distribution/copying/selling, just as sgrayban stated.
Sorry 
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01-14-2005, 07:18 PM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Spokane, WA
Distribution: Debian 6.0
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Exactly
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