Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 04:49:16 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD is Copyrighted but where is the license Message-ID: <20010104044916.W292@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010104121255.mj@isy.liu.se>; from mj@isy.liu.se on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:12:55PM %2B0100 References: <XFMail.010104121255.mj@isy.liu.se>
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* Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> [010104 03:13] 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? > > I have just read the Business Software Alliance paper on www.bsa.org and they > always refer to the license, not a word about copyright there. > > I am not allowed to use programs without having a license for it. Does that mean > that FreeBSD is out of the question? You need to read the copyright which includes the license: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: yadda yadda... -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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