From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 1 16:50:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA16508 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:50:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16296 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:47:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA04960; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:47:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:47:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: fconagy@almaden.ibm.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copyright In-Reply-To: <9611012326.AA17468@bitman.almaden.ibm.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 1 Nov 1996 fconagy@almaden.ibm.com wrote: > I am behind a firewall at at Big Blue ;-) but I would like to continue > to use your system just like at the university. But local policy says > I am supposed to show the license terms to my boss. On the FreeBSD CD > I could find only the Berkeley legal stuff. Is that all, so you do not > impose any other copyright restrictions on the software you have on > the CD or not so? In any case please write me an answer I can show to > the boss, so I colud use FreeBSD opn my laptop. The "Berkeley legal stuff" (in the file /COPYRIGHT) IS the license. FreeBSD is distributed under the terms of the Berkeley-style license. If you're interested in any particular part of the license, feel free to send us some mail. The license is not very restrictive. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major