From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 19:41:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AAB51065670 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:41:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F3F8FC08 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o2NJfD2L010449 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:41:14 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BA91959.6060201@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:41:13 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: Free BSD Licensing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:41:18 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23/03/2010 14:40:15, jeguelf5@rockwellcollins.com wrote: > Free BSD representative, > > I am inquiring if Free BSD is installable under the The GNU General Public > License (short: GNU GPL or simply GPL)? Need to verify that for the > requester of this software as coming through our subcontracts division. Mostly FreeBSD uses the FreeBSD license: http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html This is an open-source license according to the OSI terms. Some software within the FreeBSD distribution is licensed under the GPL or LGPL. As the FreeBSD license is less restrictive than the GPL, it's pretty much safe to say that wherever you are permitted install GPL'd software, you could substitute FreeBSD licensed software without legal penalty. (Note: *install* -- redistribution is a different matter) Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkupGVkACgkQ8Mjk52CukIx/EACghGCkDasLFw/1tVlBO/mlZR3f P0UAn0iZDeRfWg8t30lPXfHSgo+NycHx =QjnI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----