• 1) This post is being moved to the lounge from the General Support forum, no support is really called for here.

    2) It's not theft. Anyone is free to sell copies of Knoppix . The group who put Knoppix together made clear that they permitted this, so you can't call it theft.

    2a) Knoppix itself might be crossing the line or at least playing it close and loose with the GPL requirements of source code distribution. I've never tried to track everything down myself, but from what I see on these forums it seems like the source code for all of the included software is not being "made available" as completely as the licensing terms require if you take them literally. So in that sense any CD reseller may be in violation too. But one would be hard presses to justtify going after a reseller on those grounds if Knoppix itself isn't being challenged by the IP owners.

    3) I sure wouldn't buy such a CD, and I strongly try to discourage anyone else from doing so either. Not only would buying such a CD support someone who is trying to profit from other's work, but it will usually get you a defective product. We have seen over and over again here that such CDs are virtually always burnt at high speed (and often on dubious quality media) and it has been shown here over and over again that high speed Knoppix burns have boot problems that low speed burns don't. Someone selling copies f the CD to others is likely to be out to maximize their profits, and is much more likely to try to burn the CD in a minute or so than to take over 15 minutes to burn it properly.

    4) It was quite strange that you would include not only the URL for the very company that you were supposedly complaining about, but would include a second URL for the same company in your post. Almost as if you were a g.d. forum spammer trying to increase your SEO by posing a URL, but didn't want to look so obvious so made a negative comment at the same time. You'll be glad to know that I edited out the URL of this company that you say you dislike so much, and added it to the spam filter so it will not be posted again!