From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 10:21:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdanderson.org [143.111.87.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 746E337B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu (jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.64.202]) by mail.mdanderson.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA23173; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:18:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:21:42 -0500 Message-ID: <87vgv719wa.wl@jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu> From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: ford.frost@embeddedpower.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick Question about Copyright versus GNU GPL In-Reply-To: In your message of "Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:20:19 -0500 " References: User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.1.1 (Purple Rain) SEMI/1.13.7 (Awazu) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) XEmacs/21.1 (patch 12) (Channel Islands) (i686-pc-cygwin32) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Alford Frost writes: > Does the freebsd copyright assume compliance with the GPL with respect to > charging for use of the source code by a thrid party company? I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but the BSD copyright and the GPL have nothing to do with each other. The BSD copyright allows you to redistribute modified or unmodified binary or source code along with anything from another vendor (including yourself) at whatever price you are willing to charge so long as you maintain the copyright statement in the source or documentation as well as the conditions of redistribution and the disclaimer of warranties. Does this help? Jonathan Fosburgh Open Systems Communications and Computer Services UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message