Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 15:10:12 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Marc Nicholas <marc@hippocampus.net> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD licensing? Message-ID: <199805262210.PAA01770@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 18:39:09 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980526183312.9742G-100000@neuron.hippocampus.net>
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> On Tue, 26 May 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > You can meet this by including the relevant credits in your software > > licence. You may also be liable to buy Poul a beer (at your > > discretion), should you meet him in a bar. > > <dumb question> Who's Poul? By the time you've finished reading the copyrights from all the kernel files, you'll know that I'm referring to this license: * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42): * <phk@login.dknet.dk> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you * can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think * this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. Poul-Henning Kamp * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Be aware that some (optional) kernel components are GPL'd. This > > basically covers: > > > > - ext2fs > > - the GPL math emulator > > - the digiboard driver > > None of these are required by our product, although I think the GPL math > emulator might be in our current kernel. That's 'options GPL_MATH_EMULATE'. It's only useful on 386 and 486sx parts. > > So the short answer is: give credit in your documentation. > > We would regardless, just want to make sure we're legal :-) > > So, credits to both FreeBSD Inc. and UCB will go in the documentation etc. You'll have to go a little further than that; there are a large number of individuals as well as Intel and CMU (at least) that you will need to credit. I'd recommend working out which kernel components you're using/ likely to use, then feed each of the files through head -50 and sort them. You'll only need to do it once; it's been a few years since I did the sweep for a previous employer, and it was pretty painless. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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