On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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.
With the "BSD running on a mach kernel" part also known as Darwim, which is freely distributable under pretty much the same conditions as the other BSDs. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
