From owner-freebsd-small Tue May 26 15:39:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08934 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:39:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from neuron.hippocampus.net (neuron.hippocampus.net [204.138.241.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08755 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:39:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@hippocampus.net) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by neuron.hippocampus.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA10365; Tue, 26 May 1998 18:39:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:39:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas Reply-To: Marc Nicholas To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD licensing? In-Reply-To: <199805262117.OAA01315@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 May 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > 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. Who's Poul? > Be aware that some (optional) kernel components are GPL'd. This > basically covers: > > - ext2fs > - the GPL math emulator > - the digiboard driver None of these are required by our product, although I think the GPL math emulator might be in our current kernel. > So the short answer is: give credit in your documentation. We would regardless, just want to make sure we're legal :-) So, credits to both FreeBSD Inc. and UCB will go in the documentation etc. Thanks. -marc -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hippocampus OSD, Inc. "Industrial Strength Internet Solutions" vox://416.979.9000 fax://416.979.8223 http://www.hippocampus.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message