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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:01:09 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root)
Cc:        ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart), questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can FreeBSD be used in a commercial way?
Message-ID:  <199602070001.RAA05368@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <9602062137.AA02506@kermit.acs.uswest.com>
References:  <3117A001.E4E@nyro.com> <9602062137.AA02506@kermit.acs.uswest.com>

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> > I am interested in using FreeBSD
> > as a foundation for a complete OS.

FrebSD *is* a complete OS.

> > What is needed to use or license the
> > 2.1 release so that we may sell it
> > commercially with value.
>
> It is a complete OS. You you can't sell it.

If you follow the steps outlined in the Copyright, you can indeed sell
it.  You could even package up a binary distribution (removing all of
the parts which don't allow binary-only distributions) and call is PCOS
and be perfectly within your rights.  The BSD license allows such
things, although you'd be missing alot of the system such as the entire
development toolset.


Nate



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