Well I figured there are a few out here looking for this. I am not condoning downloading the club ISO without paying for it, but on the same note I am contributing to it. Anyone who frequents demonoid.com for torrents would have come across it anyways.

here is the link:
http://www.demonoid.com/torrents/details/107049/

What is the use for that? Mandrake Linux LE 2005 free download is available.

You are just doing something ilegal for nothing.

Well for starters, I am not doing anything illegal what so ever. Simply because I am not one downloading it. I just happened to come across it at demonoid while looking in the linux apps section, which I am sure others out here have also stumbled across it there.

Oh and if one actually looks at the GNU about linux it clearly states that each distributor must make available their distro freely, along with any GNU applicable files. Now with that in mind making two versions, both containing publicly obtainable files and not having both available to the public, that violates the GNU and the law.

I love Mandrake / Mandriva so don't get me wrong here and I have paid for a copy or two in the past to support them but a fact is a fact. Another such offender is Red Hat as well, but they side skirt it with Fedora (a totally different animal) and how Red Hat includes a large amount of proprietary code.

Bottom line! Before you accuse me of anything get your facts right!

Is it the free 3 cd's on a DVD or is it the Club Only 6Cd's on a DVD?

It is the club edition everyone.

Again is it the 3 or 6 cd version. The club has both. I belong to the club and I can download a dvd of the first 3 cds or a dvd of 6 cds.

As i said it is the club edition.... The download edition is 3 disks, the club is the 6. On the club site they give you access to both, but they are on dedicated high speed servers. So if you want the download edition faster and a member of the club then you can get it on their servers as opposed to getting it on the public servers thats all. Don't ask me why they do that. A member of the club is going to get the full version hands down.

Thats not true. Only silver club member and above get the 6 cd set version. The bottom entry level get only the 3 cd set version. The only difference between the club version and the free donload version is the members get it a few weeks before the public.

You seem to have the mistaken idea that Linux = GPL.

While the kernel, and the GNU tools, and many, many apps *are* covered under the GPL, many apps are proprietary, which means they cannot be downloaded as if they were GPL, and many more are actually *commercial! You can't legally get those without paying some $$$.

Mandrake has always provided (and expects to always provide) a GPL, freely-downloadable version of their distro. This is the 3-CD set that you can download anywhere. Anything *else* includes proprietary/commercial applications, which are not free to download. Thus, anyone providing anything other than the 3-CD version is doing so *illegally*.

You may not be the one providing the downloadable files, but you are an "accessory" to the crime.