Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:43:30 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Bryan Smith <3babs@qlink.queensu.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Redistribution of FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <421D7792.20706@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <000f01c51a19$e0267b10$96de0f82@bryansmith> References: <000f01c51a19$e0267b10$96de0f82@bryansmith>
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Bryan Smith wrote: [ ...format recovered, please set linewrap preference... ] > My name is Bryan and I am wondering if I can freely distribute FreeBSD 5.3. Yes. > If I can redistribute it, is there anything I need to include with the ISO > images when I distribute them? No. You can redistribute byte-for-byte identical copies of the ISO images from the ftp.freebsd.org servers if you'd like. > I read that I need to include the copyright notice. That's right. Very probably you will need to include both the BSD /COPYRIGHT file and the GPL /usr/src/gnu/COPYING file somewhere. [1] Of course, the ISO images come with the files containing the copyright and license text. > Do I need to include a seperate document for this copyright notice > (text file or html document) or is the copyright notice in one of the ISO > images (also, is the copyright notice that I would need to add the one found > at http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html)? The ones that come with the ISO images are fine as far as BSD-licensed and GPL'ed ("GPL-licensed?" :-) software are concerned. Depending on the version of FreeBSD and if you include any ports, you ought to consider: http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/LEGAL Note that if you modify parts of FreeBSD, especially GPLed parts, you will likely be obligated to make those changes available under the terms of 3b: " b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or," ...unless your changes are included in source form already. > Also, is there a limit on the amount I can redistribute? No. -- -Chuck [1]: Or several somewheres, unfortunately: 11-sec% locate COPYING | wc -l 77 I wonder if anyone has arranged for them to be hardlinks to each other? :-)
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