From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 21:43:46 2002 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 9DFF237B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimta02.algx.net (chimta02.algx.net [216.99.233.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D36543E4A for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:43:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kop@meme.com) Received: from mofo.meme.com (216-99-228-22-chi-01.cvx.algx.net [216.99.228.22]) by chimmx02.algx.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GZH00BCHBSOU5@chimmx02.algx.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:43:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mofo.meme.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mofo.meme.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5BDE44F1 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:58:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:58:01 -0500 From: "Karl O . Pinc" Subject: Software License Sound Bites, v 0.2 In-reply-to: <"from kop"@meme.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20020718235801.G8111@mofo.meme.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.3 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Lines: 72 References: <20020718235134.E8111@mofo.meme.com> 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 Please comment. Thanks. Karl Soliciting comment from: gnu@gnu.org, osi@opensource.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG --------------------------------------------------- Software License Sound Bites Version 0.2 Karl O. Pinc President, The Meme Factory, Inc. http://www.meme.com Copyright (c) 2002, Karl O. Pinc Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available at "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt". Free Software, not copylefted (e.g. modified BSD License): My code is yours, but don't sue me. Free Software, copylefted (e.g. GNU GPL): You may have my code, but put it away if you're not going to share with your friends. Open Source: Code for everybody! No royalties! Free Software can be used, improved, and given away or sold, by anyone who has legally obtained a working copy of the software. Just two, optional, restrictions on the use of the software are permitted: should the software be defective, the authors cannot be sued; the rights of use, alteration, and re-distribution must continue to be passed onward, in turn, to those who have legally obtained subsequent improvements. Free Software subject to the second of these optional restrictions is said to be copylefted. Open Source software is that which can be used, read, and improved, for any purpose, by anyone who has legally obtained a working copy of the software; improvements may be re-distributed, either for sale or for free, without payment of royalties. Other restrictions compatible with these criteria may exist. As the neither of the two restrictions allowed by the Free Software definition violate the Open Source criteria, Free Software is one variety of Open Source software. As the Open Source definition allows other restrictions to be placed on the use, distribution, and modification of the software, all Open Source software is not Free Software. Users of Free Software who understand the Free Software definition and know whether their software is copylefted can be confident they know their rights and obligations. Users of Open Source software who understand the Open source definition can be confident they have certain rights. Users of any kind of non-Free Software must examine the terms of their software license(s) to discover what obligations they have to the copyright holder and what restrictions the license may place on their activities. For more information see: What is the BSD License? http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/bsd/license.html The Free Software Definition http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html The Open Source Definition http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message