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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 tombrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Grant Sewell wrote: >>> On Wed, 06 May 2009 09:41:41 +0100 >>> Rob Beard wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I'm a member of the Torbay & South Devon Freecycle list and I noticed >>>> recently there has been a request from someone for a Windows XP Disc >>>> & license key. Now I have the feeling that they have not much chance >>>> of getting XP unless someone is willing to give away a retail boxed >>>> copy (these are the only ones where the licence is transferable to >>>> another machine). >>>> >>>> Now I was thinking, would it be okay to give away some Ubuntu & >>>> OpenDisc CDs on Freecycle? >>>> >>>> What I'd like to do is promote the LUG and maybe offer a free install >>>> of Ubuntu to anyone who is interested but I have a feeling that'll be >>>> against the terms and conditions. Just wondered if anyone had any >>>> thoughts on this as from what I understand there are over 4000 people >>>> on the Freecycle list for Torbay and South Devon alone and I'm sure a >>>> few of those might be interested. >>>> >>>> Rob >>>> >>> Against the T&Cs of what? Ubuntu, OpenDisc or FreeCycle? Certainly >>> their FAQ (http://www.freecycle.org/faq/faq/faq_guidelines) doesn't >>> seem to prohibit this. >>> >>> Grant. >>> >> I thought it might be against the T&C's of Freecycle. >> >> I'm sure I heard a while back of something like this, someone got kicked >> off Freecycle for advertising Ubuntu or something like that. >> > > I didn't get kicked off as such, but they where not happy with me > "advertising" the Free Software Day last year. They felt that I wasn't > giving anything away. I pointed out that we where giving services and free > CD's, but the moderator was still not happy. I did not persue it because > basically time ran out. I think offering CD's should be ok as this is a > physical thing that you are giving away freely. > > It seems its still difficult to justify giving away software freely even > on a site dedicated to giving things away free. > >> I might give it a try, getting some CD labels, making a couple of discs >> and then giving them away on Freecycle. >> >> Rob >> >> -- >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html >> >> > > > > I have a stack of cd lables here, that I sent off for with my press-it cd kit, so before you go out and buy any may be worth seeing if these are of any use. Given I have a lot of them, Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet :Saturday ** May 9th ** : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope - Launched April 23rd, 2009 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoBc3UACgkQaggq1k2FJq3BrwCaA8GofjRLR7ffn3Eh2/khvyYn eHEAn284FdbY7gnsl4NyFooVsyhNT1Cl =9dad -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html