From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 18:49:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hpu450.hpu.edu (hpu450.hpu.edu [205.149.106.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC4C37BFBD for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:49:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waichan@hpu.edu) Received: from sniffit (sniffit.hpu.edu [205.149.106.192]) by hpu450.hpu.edu (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA23277 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:49:31 -1000 (HST) From: "Wai Chan" To: Subject: RE: Copyright and Payment Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:49:31 -1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000726192739.0069a6a8@theboss.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tell your clients you are selling the service (installation, troubleshooting, ... consulting) for a $1000. The software is free. I don't think anyone can legally sell something which is free for everyone. However, you can charge the media (the CD) for $1000 if you like. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Moline Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 04:28 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright and Payment > > 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 I don't think donating the money to freebsd makes it any more ethical than if he were to keep the money for himself. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message