Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:11:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: durang@u.washington.edu (K. Marsh) Cc: sjmudd@bitmailer.net, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very Common Question Message-ID: <199902210111.UAA15546@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.05.9902201235570.14710-100000@goodall1.u.washington.edu> from "K. Marsh" at "Feb 20, 99 12:40:01 pm"
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K. Marsh wrote, > 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. This is a common misconception. There is absolutely nothing in the GPL that says you cannot sell code for a profit. Afterall, for an example, RedHat does it, right? > So in that sense, the FreeBSD liscense > is even less restrictive. How you see that depends on if you are a seller or purchaser. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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