On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:37:38PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote:
> On Friday 26 February 2010 21:25:51 Richard Toohey wrote:
> > On 27/02/2010, at 3:04 PM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
> > > Let me clear on this.
> > >
> > > Yes you can.
> > >
> > > Follow the BSD licence terms (none of which say anything about for
> > > profit) and you are fine.
> > >
> > > There is absolutely zero legal reason you cannot put together a cd of
> > > OpenBSD and sell it. The official CD has some further licencing
> > > restrictions, so if you were to copy it verbatim it would constitute a
> > > breach of these terms.
> > >
> > > But if you create your own and sell it. No problem.
> >
> > "No problem"?  Maybe not (I don't know) a legal/licence problem, but you
> > are biting the hand that feeds / killing the golden goose.
> >
> > http://www.openbsd.org/
> >
> > "The project pays for the development environment and developer events by
> > selling CDs ... These finances ensure that OpenBSD will continue to exist
> > ..."
> >
> > But I sense another troll ...
> 
> I don't.  A lot of people are genuinely confused & curious about this BSD
> thing, the operating system and license.  The number of times I've explained
> (or tried to) the BSD license vs. GPL numbers in the dozens now.
> 
> People here are far too quick to label questions like this as trolling.  
> Sure, 
> there are people who like to stir the pot up, but there are a lot more
> clueless people out there--clueless meaning not understanding, where
> we all were, at one point.
>

FWIW - This person posted the same question to the freebsd-questions
list a couple of days ago. It was handled there in basically the same
way it is being handled here. There person never responded (to that
list) either. So, his/her motivations (other than financial) were
never revealed (too the list).

I have yet to see the OP ask this question on the netBSD list. I suspect
it is coming.

-Neal

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