From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 27 07:59:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C90106564A for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3288FC1D for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o1R7wpBI093610 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:58:58 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4B88D0BB.201@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:58:51 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Thunderbird/3.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Citra Cool References: <2e8230611002261650oe500cb9qa9b52336e4e717bf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2e8230611002261650oe500cb9qa9b52336e4e717bf@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: selling freebsd cd for profit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:59:04 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 27/02/2010 24:50:54, Citra Cool wrote: > can i selling free bsd for my profit?? > is it legal?? In a word, yes -- sure you can. All you have to do is abide by the terms of the licensing. Primarily, that's the FreeBSD license which says that you can do what you like with the software and documentation, just don't deny credit to the people that actually wrote it. Some parts of the material in FreeBSD is under GPL, which means that you have to ensure source code is available for those bits: if you're redistributing the standard .iso images from the FreeBSD web sites, you can just point to the ways of getting the sources in the Handbook. Whether reselling for profit something that anyone can get for free is a viable business proposition I'll leave up to your better judgement. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuI0LsACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxh/wCfczzd3M82l1OJgXJ1hNfJ6i3Y lScAnjkDsr4/fjdEKvcMNUpCPdKjWX29 =8EjN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----