From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 16:53:33 2011 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 55B5B1065675 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:53:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linuxisone@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B858FC12 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:53:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbcc3 with SMTP id c3so437150pbc.13 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:53:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CS49+PUxsnFX80zGM1jSbUNN2F8zjaZoh2vS1UavYMQ=; b=Fw66mZ3vKNv1vct09/6V2ESFfczOE0J71vMxLMlRgGGScqWjY8RU0akJRgFaCz0Jtb o7YM7FFQDrZPZJznt/tTTcSgOunuIfSzbryHWUWB91Qfqo7kd+B6vUZtdoGaViAss7kG IGjQB9TqBy1FSjiha2yCKPJIAhadU5hj50QLE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.212.68 with SMTP id ni4mr46276281pbc.44.1323795212441; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:53:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.58.135 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:53:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EE76F8D.1010908@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4EE76F8D.1010908@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:53:32 -0500 Message-ID: From: LinuxIsOne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: freebsd is really bsd? 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: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:53:33 -0000 On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Yes, it is really BSD: it is the direct lineal descendant of Unix code > released by the University of California, Berkeley. =A0The beginnings of > the FreeBSD project were based on the 386BSD code that ultimately came > out of BSD 4.3 and 4.4. =A0See here, for instance: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.svg > "Free" in the sense of "available to use in any way the user may see fit > and without onerous licensing terms or fees" -- that's implicit in the > BSD part of the name[*]. =A0Still, no harm in repeating ourselves. > Besides, it was necessary to distinguish this project from NetBSD and > later OpenBSD (plus various other more recent BSD variants). > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Cheers, > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Matthew > [*] Although you can still be BSD, even under commercial licensing terms > and closed source, but in that case, the name tends not to contain those > letters. =A0eg. =A0SunOS (before v5), NeXTSTEP, MacOS X. Oh I see. Thanks for the explanation.