From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 25 10:54:26 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA14457 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 10:54:26 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA14444 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 10:54:24 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA02646; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 10:54:11 -0800 To: abrahams@equinox.shaysnet.com (Paul Abrahams) cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, blarson@ires.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD copying & licensing rules In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jan 95 10:18:16 EST." <9501251518.AA00987@equinox.shaysnet.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 10:54:07 -0800 Message-ID: <2644.791060047@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm working on the revision of the book "UNIX for the Impatient" and I'm > putting in a paragraph about FreeBSD. I've looked at the FAQ but saw > no mention of copying restrictions. Is FreeBSD covered by the GNU > General Public License the way Linux is? Or is the system entirely > in the public domain? FreeBSD is covered by the Berkeley copyright, which is not exactly public domain but also places no restrictions on further redistribution (unlike the GPL). > Also, if you have any comments on differences between FreeBSD and > Linux, I'd be very interested in seeing them. Well, think of us as a `Free BSDI'.. :-) We're basically a BSD 4.4 based UN*X clone more along the lines of SunOS or Ultrix than a completely home-grown OS like Linux. Architecturally, Linux also seems to track System V. Jordan