From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 6 3:45:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-1.free.fr (postfix2-1.free.fr [213.228.0.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B47E37B416 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 03:45:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-4-62-147-140-160.dial.proxad.net [62.147.140.160]) by postfix2-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941C41EB for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:45:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 2631 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Apr 2002 11:45:05 -0000 Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:45:05 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Ian Pulsford , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license? Message-ID: <20020406114505.GA2576@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , Ian Pulsford , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200204051922.06556@silver.dt1.binity.net> <3CAE7037.801FB15F@optusnet.com.au> <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au> <20020406105111.A90057@lpt.ens.fr> <3CAEDDD2.2ADA819F@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CAEDDD2.2ADA819F@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > (a) Copyright notice != license. Yes, you must retain the notice. > > It doesn't say anything about how you may license the code to > > third parties. > > "This notice" is inclusive. You can't delete lines out of > the middle of it, and claim continued compliance. This means > you must leave the license terms intact. So if Microsoft used the BSD implementation of ftp, they must give it to you under the BSD license? > > (b) You are not compelled to redistribute the source code. (If you > > were, it would be a "viral" license like the GPL.) > > No, but you are required to duplicate the notice in accompanying > documentation. > > Whether this grants people the right to distribute the binaries > of the code you distribute is questionable. Again, IANAL, but you seem to be questioning the most fundamental assumptions people make about BSD licensing. (Is it questionable that an embedded systems developer can distribute devices containing FreeBSD binaries without supplying the source code?) - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message