From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 20 15:20:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092B037B4CF for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:20:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAKMwLJ71139; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:28:21 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:28:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: m.n.safie@iname.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enquiry regarding copyright Message-ID: <20001121092821.X58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <0011201402567I.03084@weba4.iname.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <0011201402567I.03084@weba4.iname.net>; from m.n.safie@iname.com on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:02:56PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 20 November 2000 at 14:02:56 -0500, m.n.safie@iname.com wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam > > I purchased a FreeBSD CD recently. It isn't the official > distribution by BSDi, but from another local company. > > I wish to know if it is perfectly legal for me to use the CD if it > doesn't contain copyright notice like those you have on your > website. It only mention: "FreeBSD is a registered trademark of > FreeBSD, Inc and Walnut Creek CD-ROM". I couldn't find any copyright > notice for 4.4 BSD Lite or other liability statements. I'm pretty sure you'll find the copyright statements on the CD-ROM. One way or another, you shouldn't have any worry about using the software. The license, whether or not you got it, specifically allows you to use it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message