Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:02:07 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: licensing question Message-ID: <19980326180207.02340@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199803261639.IAA21956@myrtle1.bogs.org>; from Greg Shenaut on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 08:38:53AM -0800 References: <Pine.3.89.9803261152.F19097-0100000@dc.seflin.org.> <199803261639.IAA21956@myrtle1.bogs.org>
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On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 08:38:53AM -0800, Greg Shenaut wrote: > In message <Pine.3.89.9803261152.F19097-0100000@dc.seflin.org.>, 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
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