From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 05:42:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA29125 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 05:42:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from Relay1.Austria.EU.net (relay1.Austria.EU.net [192.92.138.47]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA29118 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 05:42:36 -0800 (PST) From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Received: from atusks01.aut.alcatel.at by Relay1.Austria.EU.net with SMTP id AA18861 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 7 Feb 1996 14:42:17 +0100 Received: from atuhc16 by atusks01.aut.alcatel.at (4.1/SMI-4.1/AAA-1.29/main) id AA06223; Wed, 7 Feb 96 14:41:40 +0100 Message-Id: <9602071341.AA06223@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at> Received: by atuhc16 (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA29617; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 14:41:39 +0100 Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be used in a commercial way? To: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) (Paul T. Root) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 96 14:41:38 MET Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9602062137.AA02506@kermit.acs.uswest.com>; from "Paul T. Root" at Feb 6, 96 3:37 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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.