From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 24 06:12:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org 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 3C19516A41C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:12:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpalm@global.t-bird.edu) Received: from mx9.mysite4now.com (mx9.mysite4now.com [66.102.135.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0708B43D4C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:12:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpalm@global.t-bird.edu) Received: from [67.164.71.235] by mx9.mysite4now.com [66.102.135.68] with SmartMax MailMax for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:18:00 -0700 X-SmartMax-AuthUser: chris@palmconsulting.com Message-ID: <42BBA457.9050601@global.t-bird.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:12:39 -0700 From: Chris Palm User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Building applications on BSD software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:12:44 -0000 Hello, I am writing a b-school paper on the use of open source software components and libraries used in and distributed with a company's applications, and the legal copyright and other business issues that arise. What kinds of distribution requirements in terms of licensing would be in place around distributing one of BSD's libraries? If a company was to want to leverage and distribute these libraries with its products, what would that company have to do? Would you be willing to share a licensing agreement for BSD components? I found your legal page, but was unclear as to whether a third party developer would use the the GNU or not. The reason I ask for this is I want to see how viable a software product can be if it includes and is built in part on third party libraries. I have chosen BSD simply because a member of our class project team is familiar with it from a past life. We would be happy to share our report with your team after completion. Thank you, in advance, for any and all help you can provide on this. Best Regards, Chris Palm MBA Candidate Thunderbird, Garvin School of International Management Class 2006 Phone: 650 799 0410