From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 06:43:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8561B16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:43:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F73743D31 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:43:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A935DDB; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:43:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 46274-01; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:43:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-75-250.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.75.250]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 310BF5D61; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:43:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <421D7792.20706@mac.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:43:30 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryan Smith <3babs@qlink.queensu.ca> References: <000f01c51a19$e0267b10$96de0f82@bryansmith> In-Reply-To: <000f01c51a19$e0267b10$96de0f82@bryansmith> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Redistribution of FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:43:38 -0000 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? :-)