From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 6:25:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (ric-37.freedomnet.com [198.240.105.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0777F1561F for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 06:25:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA25575; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:25:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <199912291425.JAA25575@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199912290445.XAA04539@lorax.eecs.umich.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:25:17 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Rob Malan Subject: RE: Building commercial systems using FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-Dec-99 Rob Malan wrote: > Hello, > > I am building a software system that requires kernel modifications. I want > to resell the resulting software. What are the commercial licensing > criteria for using FreeBSD as a platform? Are any kernel modifications > encumbered (ala GPL)? > > I appreciate your help. You may read the COPYRIGHT at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/COPYRIGHT?rev=1.4 You'll want to get a lawyer or your legal department to check that out for you. Basically, you have to include a copyright statement in the source code and in the documentation. You also can't use the names of any of the contributors as advertising material w/o prior permission. Other than that you can do whatever you want. Thus, you can freely make modifications which you don't have to redistribute, and you can freely sell your product. > -Rob Malan -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message