Nikolas Britton wrote:
Erik Trulsson wrote:
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.
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.
duh, I forgot the best example. BSD running on a mach kernel running a
custom user interface, otherwise known as Mac OS-X.
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