From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 13 16:18:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17280 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:18:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17256 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:18:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA04426; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 10:48:32 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA16146; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 10:48:31 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980314104831.06328@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 10:48:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: gilley , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Is this illegal?] References: <3509847F.6AB2653A@netunlimited.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <3509847F.6AB2653A@netunlimited.net>; from gilley on Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 07:09:52PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 March 1998 at 19:09:52 +0000, gilley wrote: > > I noticed the following output from my ISP. > Can they run academic versions for profit? That depends on the licensing. > Also I have seen that they run "Unregested BSD" > for there servers. It does not say FreeBSD. Can > They do that? I know linux is completely free > but the only version of BSD they could use would > be FreeBSD or NetBSD, yes? I don't see why your ISP shouldn't be running FreeBSD. A large number do. But neither FreeBSD nor NetBSD produce a message "unregistered BSD". > Please let me know if they are doing > something illegal here. You should try to find out what version of BSD they're running. Possibly it's a demo version of BSD/OS, in which case there's a chance that they are doing something in contravention of the license. If you can get shell access to the machine, 'uname -a' will tell you. You could also check with BSDI, I suppose. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message