From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 17:45:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905B637BF84 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:45:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA71604; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:45:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:45:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: Harry Woodward-Clarke Cc: Postmaster , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright and payment In-Reply-To: <397F6F0C.8A3C3C3F@S1.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Is it legal to sell FreeBSD for money ($1000?) to customers without > > telling them it's free before they pay? Any rules for this? > > > > - Alpha > > more to the point - "is it ethical?". I suppose it might be ok if you > were to donate the whole $1000 to the FreeBSD project, but I don't think > that's what you had in mind, is it? > I think the gnu portions of the dist would put the stompers on it anyways.. I cant imagine what he thinks will happen if they are clients who get online and see that freebsd is free! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message