Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:04:05 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: stark <stark@jeamland.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Licensing Question Message-ID: <20020102200405.A32353@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <20020102185250.98935.qmail@purpledreams.com>; from stark@jeamland.ca on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:52:50PM -0500 References: <20020102185250.98935.qmail@purpledreams.com>
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:52:50PM -0500, stark stood up and spoke: > OK, I've looked through /usr/src/sys and I've tried to get my > head around this, but I'm still confused : > > What, exactly, are the licensing restrictions WRT the 'normal' > (i.e. non-ports, non-packages) distribution of FreeBSD? > > If I'm reading the 'README' and 'COPYRIGHT' files correctly > in /usr/src, then the BSD license (without the advertising clause) > applies to all of the directories EXCEPT the /usr/src/gnu directory, > which contains other packages, mostly GPL or LGPL licensed. > > Is this correct? Am I missing something glaringly obvious? Nope, except if otherwise noted, all files that form the FreeBSD based system are licensed under the BSD license, as found under /COPYRIGHT. In order to make things easier, the parts of the system that are licensed under the GPL or LGPL have been put into the "gnu" subdirectory. So, the assumptions you made above are correct. Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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