From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 13:11:53 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 0898916A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:11:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59E143D46 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:11:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20050202131136i92004ttqle>; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:11:52 +0000 Message-ID: <4200D188.2060905@nbritton.org> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:11:36 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <20050202091217.2552.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com> <4200C794.1030809@nbritton.org> <20050202123425.GA65636@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <4200CF09.6070608@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <4200CF09.6070608@nbritton.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: faisal gillani cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: distrubuting distro 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: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:11:53 -0000 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.