Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:11:36 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: distrubuting distro Message-ID: <4200D188.2060905@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <4200CF09.6070608@nbritton.org> References: <20050202091217.2552.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com> <4200C794.1030809@nbritton.org> <20050202123425.GA65636@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <4200CF09.6070608@nbritton.org>
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Nikolas Britton wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > >> >> But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU >> GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly >> simplified) you need to include the sourcecode for anything you >> distribute.) >> >> In either case it is certainly allowed to sell FreeBSD and charge >> whatever you want. You just can't prevent anybody making further >> copies once they have recieved one. >> >> > If there was no GPL code in FreeBSD he could prevent anybody from > making copys of his copys, as long as he keeps the BSD copyright > notices in there etc he can do anything he wants with it, ANYTHING! > For example the Windows NT network stack was ripped from OpenBSD et. > al. Now if you ask me if it's a sane thing to do I'd say no because > they can just go around him and get it from the FreeBSD site. but the > point I'm trying to make is that he could if he wanted to, even if > it's a stupid idea such as this, because FreeBSD IS "free", unlike the > GPL. > duh, I forgot the best example. BSD running on a mach kernel running a custom user interface, otherwise known as Mac OS-X.
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