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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:41:19 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Rob Malan <rmalan@eecs.umich.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Building commercial systems using FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19991229094118.A65368@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <199912290445.XAA04539@lorax.eecs.umich.edu>; from "Rob Malan" on Tue Dec 28 23:45:16 GMT 1999
References:  <199912290445.XAA04539@lorax.eecs.umich.edu>

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In the last episode (Dec 28), Rob Malan said:
> 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)?

The only restricted kernel bits are in /sys/contrib and /sys/gnu.  The
important bits to watch for are softupdates, and possibly the GNU math
emulator, both of which you can easily live without.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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