From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 13 14:21:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D52916A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.elvandar.org (cust.94.120.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.94.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A2743D1D for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:21:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Message-ID: <407C59D6.4040802@elvandar.org> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:21:26 +0200 From: Remko Lodder X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: davjos References: <407C4F9A.90706@ukonline.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <407C4F9A.90706@ukonline.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvandar.org cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD and copyright issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:21:28 -0000 davjos wrote: > Hi, I expect this is a question you get asked a lot these days, but in > the light of SCO claims to ownership of Unix copyright and their legal > action against IBM etc. What is the copyright/legal position with > respect to FreeBSD? Hey Mags, For what i know (and i really did not look into copyright's etc) is that BSD has a "Free License" you can do anything with it. It's more free than GPL. and even OpenBSD like's it (and they are really into free software nowayadays) hope this shed a little light.. Cheers > > regards, Mags. -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl A Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene