Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:32:57 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Daniel Jennings <djennings84@bigpond.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open source quiry Message-ID: <20080226053256.GB3515@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <000001c8780f$3c0ebae0$b42c30a0$@com> References: <000001c8780f$3c0ebae0$b42c30a0$@com>
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On 2008-02-26 11:33, Daniel Jennings <djennings84@bigpond.com> wrote: > Hello, > Recently I was told that 2wire dsl gateways http://www.2wire.com use a > variant of rt FreeBSD. The FreeBSD license allows reuse of the source code. In fact, this is one of the stated goals of the project. `To provide a modern UNIX system, with no strings attached.' > If this is true are they required to make the source code available to > the public? And if so how does one go about getting the GPL source Not necessarily. Depending on how meticulous they have been in their efforts to properly compartmentalize their own stuff, the BSD license allows commercial reuse of the source code.
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