From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 13:10:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from manatee.mammalia.org (manatee.mammalia.org [216.231.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB59D37B424 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by manatee.mammalia.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AC65811CFF4; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:10:41 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: BSD license questions Message-ID: <20000907131041.B21037@mammalia.org> References: <20000907115433.A19971@mammalia.org> <20000907125755.G18862@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000907125755.G18862@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:57:55PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG And Alfred Perlstein spoke: > * R Joseph Wright [000907 11:54] wrote: > > Does the BSD license make it so that, even if a proprietary (binary only) > > piece of software is derived from BSD, that software must be freely > > distributable by anyone? That is the impression I get by reading this section > > of the license: > > > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > > modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions > > are met: > > 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > > 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > > documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > > > > How can a company, like BSDI for example, charge for single user/multi user > > licenses for their software if the BSD license allows one to make copies? > > Because it only affects one level. The source will forever be > 'tainted' with the copyright notice but that's all, it doesn't > state that the code must be released under the same license, just > that it must retain the notice in the source and a notice of > recognition with the docs and/or other materials provided with the > code. > > Basically, if BSDi was using my code, it would be sufficient for > them to just put a copy of my license clause somewhere in a list > of credits given with thier documentation, they would then be > free to copy or relicense the code in binary format as they saw > fit. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." Thanks, that clears it up. Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message