From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 21:30:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03641 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:30:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03636 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:30:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (root@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id VAA29398; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:30:24 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id VAA23691; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:20:02 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Scott Parrish cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distribution of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <35859348.51FD0C75@inetport.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Scott Parrish wrote: >We have developed a server product that requires FreeBSD or Linux (we >want it to be FreeBSD) Great! You know FreeBSD runs Yahoo and cdrom.com right? >My question is - is there a Lic. fee of some kind if we distribute >FreeBSD in our server product ? No. FreeBSD is more free(dom) that Linux in this respect due to the nature of the Berkely license. >I was unable to locate any info on this subject on the web site. See /usr/src/COPYRIGHT\ http://www.freebwd.org/availability.html http://www.freebwd.org/handbook/handbook4.html >Our Co. has plans to make donations to the FreeBSD org - say $xx.xx >number of dollars >for every copy we distribute - but we have not come up with a fig. yet. I am certain this will be appreciated. There is information about this on the website. >Again, we are a small start up Co. and are working on a very small >margin. > >We know how much work has gone into FreeBSD and I will make sure that the >FreeBSD org get something in return. Good luck! Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message