Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:53:32 -0500 From: LinuxIsOne <linuxisone@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd is really bsd? Message-ID: <CAG-YhMucnGcL_Sj5iiziU_eQidVrzPKZwPJG9OZszfnwm95kqw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EE76F8D.1010908@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CAG-YhMvR84-D0MDV42OTLpDKTNiKLUC0Lb-zBzN8VnCssOSFAg@mail.gmail.com> <4EE76F8D.1010908@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > Yes, it is really BSD: it is the direct lineal descendant of Unix code > released by the University of California, Berkeley. =A0The beginnings of > the FreeBSD project were based on the 386BSD code that ultimately came > out of BSD 4.3 and 4.4. =A0See here, for instance: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.svg > "Free" in the sense of "available to use in any way the user may see fit > and without onerous licensing terms or fees" -- that's implicit in the > BSD part of the name[*]. =A0Still, no harm in repeating ourselves. > Besides, it was necessary to distinguish this project from NetBSD and > later OpenBSD (plus various other more recent BSD variants). > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Cheers, > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Matthew > [*] Although you can still be BSD, even under commercial licensing terms > and closed source, but in that case, the name tends not to contain those > letters. =A0eg. =A0SunOS (before v5), NeXTSTEP, MacOS X. Oh I see. Thanks for the explanation.
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