From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 11:54:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11933 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:54:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11895 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:54:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA09706; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:54:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:53:59 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: licensing question In-Reply-To: <199803261639.IAA21956@myrtle1.bogs.org> 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 On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Greg Shenaut wrote: > >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. Actually, no, the Berkely copyright doesn't even place that much of a restriction on the code it protects. In fact, even the GPL doesn't prevent you from selling the product, it requires you to give source along with the product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message