From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 13:47:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.87.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDF037B424 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu.mdacc.tmc.edu (jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.64.202]) by mail.mdanderson.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA25039; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:44:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14775.65247.827000.782591@jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:47:27 -0500 (GMT-6:00) To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: BSD license questions In-Reply-To: <20000907132211.C21037@mammalia.org> References: <20000907115433.A19971@mammalia.org> <20000907150420.A27259@dan.emsphone.com> <20000907132211.C21037@mammalia.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > But, as Alfred replied, the license only goes one level deep. The software > can be relicensed with proprietary terms although it must include a copy of > the original BSD license stating its origins. Is this correct? > Joseph The original source/binary cannot itself be relicensed, that remains forever the intellectual property of the Regents (until sold, released, etc). Only modifications you make can be under a different license. The BSD license just lets you release the code+mods in binary only form, as opposed to the GPL where your mods are GPL as well. I could do up my own distro of FreeBSD without changing any code. If I do that, I still have to have a copyright statement saying that portions are copyright The FreeBSD Project, Inc, The Regents of the University of California, etc etc etc, but I don;t have to make the source available except for the portions that are GPL'd. -- 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