From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Feb 20 12:40:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goodall1.u.washington.edu (goodall1.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F4A2111CF for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:40:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from durang@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (durang@localhost) by goodall1.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id MAA43524; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:40:01 -0800 Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:40:01 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" To: Simon J Mudd Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very Common Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20 Feb 1999, Simon J Mudd wrote: > I'm not too sure of the licensing situation with FreeBSD, although > from the comments I think it's not GPL. this may be an issue for some > people: I'm not sure. I think the main concept behind the FreeBSD liscense is that they don't want to force people to distribute source code for a product they've made using FreeBSD in part or in whole. This enables you to modify the code however you want and then sell it for profit. By the regular public liscence it is illegal to do this. So in that sense, the FreeBSD liscense is even less restrictive. Kenneth J. Marsh University of Washington durang@u.washington.edu Chemical Engineering To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message