Dear CD Manufacturers,

If you are considering the manufacture of a Debian CD, please do one
of the following:

1. Distribute our Official CD Set.  There is no charge from us.  Full
instructions and a list of sites which carry the ISO 9660 image files
are at <http://cdimage.debian.org/>.  With the images is a file
README.official which explains what you can call your product
depending on which images you distribute.  Only by distributing these
images are you allowed to use the words "Official" and "Debian"
together in a product name.

2. Master your own CD on a Debian system, using the "debian-cd"
package.  This package is in our archive, and will create the ISO
images for a Debian CD set. You should be able to edit any changes you
want into the scripts in the debian-cd package. You may use the
"Debian" name on this product, but you may not use the word "Official"
together with "Debian" in the product name.

If you think that making a Debian CD is as simple as copying files out
of our FTP archive, you are mistaken.  Use our generated CD images or
our scripts in the "debian-cd" package to build your CD, so that it
will be:

	* Bootable on all newer motherboards.

	* Arranged so that Debian's package tool can find the packages
	  on the CD automatically.

	* Arranged so that the pathnames on the CD match the ones in
	  our documentation and the commercial Debian books.

This will make it much more likely that your CD is fully functional
and you will be less likely to experience customer service problems.

Please correspond with me if you have any questions.

	Thanks

	Guy Maor
	Debian FTP Administrator
	<ftpmaster@debian.org>