From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 15 22:54:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68C8106568D for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:54:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from blue.stonehenge.com (cl-52.chi-02.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4978:f:33::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E12A8FC0C for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7FAA31DE3A4; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:54:50 -0800 (PST) To: "tristan" References: From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.17.2.0; tzolkin = 4 Ahau; haab = 18 Pax Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:54:50 -0800 In-Reply-To: (tristan.nav@hotmail.com's message of "Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:43:37 -0500") Message-ID: <86vddygldx.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: iso license 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: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:54:51 -0000 >>>>> "tristan" == tristan writes: tristan> the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz is under some compilation tristan> copyright. what does this mean, and can i freely edit the iso, rename tristan> it, and sell it? You're asking *us* instead of a lawyer? :) But what did you not understand about the previous answer you just got? Most of FreeBSD is under a BSD license, which means "do nearly anything you want with it". Some *parts* of a standard FreeBSD distro are under more restrictive licenses, and you need to either comply with those licenses, or remove those parts from your derivative distribution. Now, if that's opaque to you, hire a lawyer. Now. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion