Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:29:08AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:If there was no GPL code in FreeBSD he could prevent anybody from making copys of his copys, as long as he keeps the BSD copyright notices in there etc he can do anything he wants with it, ANYTHING! For example the Windows NT network stack was ripped from OpenBSD et. al. Now if you ask me if it's a sane thing to do I'd say no because they can just go around him and get it from the FreeBSD site. but the point I'm trying to make is that he could if he wanted to, even if it's a stupid idea such as this, because FreeBSD IS "free", unlike the GPL.
faisal gillani wrote:
You can do ANYTHING you want with FreeBSD (The BSD license effectively says the same thing as the MIT license, you can see the BSD license here: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php and here http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html):Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other distro & charging only media cost related to it ? GNU based application are very hard to find here in my country & ordering from Internet is very expensive, for a normal user , so i was thinking can i copy my distro Cd's & sell @ media cost in my country ? is it allowed ?
But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly simplified) you need to include the sourcecode for anything you distribute.)
In either case it is certainly allowed to sell FreeBSD and charge
whatever you want. You just can't prevent anybody making further
copies once they have recieved one.
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