From owner-freebsd-small Tue May 26 15:23:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06041 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:23:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05972 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:23:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA01315; Tue, 26 May 1998 14:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805262117.OAA01315@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Marc Nicholas cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD licensing? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 17:32:19 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 14:17:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > We want to use the FreeBSD kernel as the core of the operating system in > upcoming product. What's the deal with licensing? Is it enough to display > FreeBSD and UCB copyright messages? Typically, the relevant clauses are: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. [... disclaimer ...] You can meet this by including the relevant credits in your software licence. You may also be liable to buy Poul a beer (at your discretion), should you meet him in a bar. Be aware that some (optional) kernel components are GPL'd. This basically covers: - ext2fs - the GPL math emulator - the digiboard driver Using these components will infect your kernel with the GPL. So the short answer is: give credit in your documentation. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message