Date: Wed, 7 Feb 96 14:41:38 MET From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at To: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) (Paul T. Root) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be used in a commercial way? Message-ID: <9602071341.AA06223@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at> In-Reply-To: <9602062137.AA02506@kermit.acs.uswest.com>; from "Paul T. Root" at Feb 6, 96 3:37 pm
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> In a previous message, Ian H. Stewart said: > > > > I am interested in using FreeBSD > > as a foundation for a complete OS. > > What is needed to use or license the > > 2.1 release so that we may sell it > > commercially with value. > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > Ian H. Stewart > > President > It is a complete OS. You you can't sell it. You > can sell the value. Which could be packaging > or support or something like that. Walnut Creek > has great packaging. The guys on this list have > great support. I beg to differ... Ian can indeed sell the OS, at least those parts covered by Berkeley or similar licenses. What he cannot sell are the parts covered by GPL (fortunately for him, these are mostly user-space utilities; unencumbered utilities could be found on NetBSD and 4.4-Lite tapes.) /Alby > Paul.
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