Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:30:07 -0500 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: Lisa Chen <lisa521c@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: the commerical side of FreeBSD? [was: PLEASE ASSIST] Message-ID: <200206121830.07181.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020612174759.55320.qmail@web10106.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020612174759.55320.qmail@web10106.mail.yahoo.com>
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First of all, a disclaimer is necessary: the freebsd-questions list is entirely volunteer-based, and the vast majority of us have nothing to do with the legal entity "The FreeBSD Foundation." Now that we've got that out of the way... FreeBSD is entirely free software. There are no formal relationships between the FreeBSD Project and any companies or paying customers. (A lot of companies use the software, though - see http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/gallery.html). The FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit organization. There are several companies which do sell the software - see http://www.bsdmall.com/ or http://www.bsdcentral.com/ for example. This is permitted under the license, and these companies, while some may choose to donate a portion of profits to the project, are not officially tied to the project. The coders and documenters who make FreeBSD are all volunteers (with a very few exceptions for contractual projects sometimes). So basically, FreeBSD is not a business, and their website is not trying to sell you anything (in a monetary sense). The website offers the operating system itself, lots of documentation, tells about places you can get help, and gives news about the OS. For information on copyright issues, see http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/index.html. I don't think that non-commercial use of any images on the site is generally restricted. One further note: you may not get a lot of response to your email because your subject line, "PLEASE ASSIST", is an insult to the concept of subject lines. Next time, use something more descriptive of what you want to know, and try to take your finger off the caps key. -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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