From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 7:41:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795831522A for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 07:41:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA65929; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:41:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:41:19 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Rob Malan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building commercial systems using FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991229094118.A65368@dan.emsphone.com> References: <199912290445.XAA04539@lorax.eecs.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912290445.XAA04539@lorax.eecs.umich.edu>; from "Rob Malan" on Tue Dec 28 23:45:16 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message