From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 16: 6:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239FD37BF64 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:06:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAAA8A for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:06:05 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 498; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:09:23 +1000 Message-ID: <397F6F0C.8A3C3C3F@S1.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:06:52 +1000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Postmaster Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright and payment References: <006201bff742$e5baf3c0$7b36f2d4@root> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > > Is it legal to sell FreeBSD for money ($1000?) to customers without > telling them it's free before they pay? Any rules for this? > > - Alpha more to the point - "is it ethical?". I suppose it might be ok if you were to donate the whole $1000 to the FreeBSD project, but I don't think that's what you had in mind, is it? If you are installing and configuring the system(s) for your customer(s), and the time spent on doing this, at your "going rate", adds up to $1000, then that would be "ok" too, but that's also not what you asked, either. Hmmm... makes you wonder... haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message