From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 4:27:53 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 04:27:51 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA4537B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 04:27:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 638843B1; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:27:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:27:49 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Micke Josefsson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is Copyrighted but where is the license Message-ID: <20010104132749.A68162@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Micke Josefsson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mj@isy.liu.se on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:12:55PM +0100 Sender: edwin@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:12:55PM +0100, Micke Josefsson wrote: > This may sound like a silly question and perhaps it is, but: > > Do we have a FreeBSD LICENSE? There is a COPYRIGHT, but is there a LICENSE > somewhere? Are the two the same? If you compare some LICENSE files with the COPYRIGHT you see that it's like this: +---------------------------------------------------- | copyright issue | | redistribution and use rules | So in this case, yeah they're the same file with a different name. Keep in mind that you're only talking about the filenames, not about the contents. > I am not allowed to use programs without having a license for it. Does that mean > that FreeBSD is out of the question? Do you explicite need a written license (i.e. written on paper) or is an electronic license also good? In that case, have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/copyright.html and http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message