From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 13:25:16 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 DEC4316A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:25:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av3-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av3-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55ABD43D31 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:25:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av3-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 5D40437E67; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:25:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.181]) by av3-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E16237E53 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:25:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 764E137E44 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:25:12 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 66011 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Feb 2005 13:25:12 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:25:12 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20050202132512.GB65974@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Nikolas Britton , faisal gillani , FreeBSD References: <20050202091217.2552.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com> <4200C794.1030809@nbritton.org> <20050202123425.GA65636@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <4200CF09.6070608@nbritton.org> <4200D188.2060905@nbritton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4200D188.2060905@nbritton.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i 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 13:25:17 -0000 On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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. With the "BSD running on a mach kernel" part also known as Darwim, which is freely distributable under pretty much the same conditions as the other BSDs. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se