From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 09:04:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15517 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15436 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA08557; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:02:07 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id SAA10130; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:02:07 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980326180207.02340@follo.net> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:02:07 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: licensing question References: <199803261639.IAA21956@myrtle1.bogs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199803261639.IAA21956@myrtle1.bogs.org>; from Greg Shenaut on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 08:38:53AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 08:38:53AM -0800, Greg Shenaut wrote: > In message , Robert Jackson cleopede: > >Well the OS is free, so as long as the maker didn't charge for it... I > >don't think there would be too much of a hassle, but don't quote me i\on > >that, these are just my assumptions. > > >On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, H.Ozawa wrote: > >> I'm just wondering if a company could just sell a system run by FreeBSD > >> or if there is a need to license. > > I think they could charge for installation, configuration, and/or > optimizing FreeBSD on a system, just not for the OS itself. This > is exactly parallel to what a FreeBSD CD-ROM vendor does. They can charge for anything they want, they just have to be careful of the credit issues. We're not talking GNU GPL here; read /usr/src/COPYRIGHT for the details :-) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message