From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 27 14:45:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C5037B424 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 14:45:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4RLio934797; Mon, 28 May 2001 09:44:50 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 09:44:49 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: kmcd@apexmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd copywright Message-ID: <20010528094449.D30532@itouchnz.itouch> References: <846930886990997200@apexmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <846930886990997200@apexmail.com>; from kmcd@apexmail.com on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:00:00PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:00:00PM -0800, kmcd@apexmail.com wrote: > > hi , > > whats the story with the bsd licence ? > > eg could one compile a custom kernel , call it fooBSD , > & use it commercially ? Yup. The point is you'd have to be able to convince the customer that fooBSD would be better than FreeBSD in terms of support, cost and reliability. And if it is, more power to fooBSD! That's what the BSD license is about. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message