From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Feb 20 17: 9:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898AF10E05 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 17:09:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15546; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:11:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902210111.UAA15546@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Very Common Question In-Reply-To: from "K. Marsh" at "Feb 20, 99 12:40:01 pm" To: durang@u.washington.edu (K. Marsh) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:11:09 -0500 (EST) Cc: sjmudd@bitmailer.net, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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