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There is a nice german report, where these terms are defined in a very broad sense (1).

My personal translation is as follows:

Distributor - A Community undertaking activities to distribute software to software-users.

Distribution-Managment - The system, used by the distributor to reach its goals.

Distribution - All software that is provided to users by the distributor via the distribution-management.

cu,

Jan

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<a href="http://kechel.de/downloads/distributionsmanagement_kechel_klink.pdf" title="kechel.de">http://kechel.de/downloads/distributionsmanagemen<nobr>t<wbr></nobr> _kechel_klink.pdf</a kechel.de> (PDF, 226KB)
<a href="http://kechel.de/downloads/distributionsmanagement_kechel_klink.ps" title="kechel.de">http://kechel.de/downloads/distributionsmanagemen<nobr>t<wbr></nobr> _kechel_klink.ps</a kechel.de> (PS, 669KB)

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