From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 28 7:27:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5DBE437B42C for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 07:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 80268 invoked by uid 100); 28 May 2001 14:27:12 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15122.24640.197637.721735@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 09:27:12 -0500 To: dave , kmcd@apexmail.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd copywright In-Reply-To: <30475131@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dave types: > Its pretty short... You really should read it. Yes, but it's not the only one that applies. The kernel and much of userland are covered by the BSD license *as well as* the FreeBSD license. Parts of userland - and some optional kernel parts - are covered by the GPL. > It does what it says and that is very little. It basically says that a > person could take the existing kernel, compile it and use it commercially > so long as it is still BSD licensed. Those familiar with the GPL might conclude from this that if you build code based on either the BSD or FreeBSD licenses, you will be required to distribute it under the same terms as you got it, the same way that GPL works. This is *not* the case. Both licenses allow you to place further restrictions on anything you distribute based on that code - such as disallowing redistribution. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message