Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:29:30 -0800 (PST) From: "T. Nguyen" <tnguyen@rohan.sdsu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The FreeBSD Copyright Message-ID: <199803051829.KAA11832@rohan.sdsu.edu>
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To Whom This May Concern, I have questions reguarding the FreeBSD Copyright. I am hoping the FreeBSD organization can clarify it for me. I have an idea of developing an embedding terminal server running on an 80x86 processor. I want my kernel to be a FreeBSD kernel because of the UNIX features(telnet, rlogin, etc..) and more importantly that it's "free". I have read through "The Free BSD Copyright" over and over and understand(I think) the terms and conditions for which it specified. My idea above is to built a terminal server with a stripped-down FreeBSD as an embedded kernel and hopefully be able to sell the terminal server as a hardware product. The kernel would be too big to store on ROM but a trimmed-down FreeBSD might fit. A trimmed FreeBSD kernel would need to be modify to fit the hardware architecture. Existing drivers would also need to be modify as well as new drivers developed, and link with the kernel. The end result would be a terminal server running an embedded trimmed-down and modified FreeBSD kernel, along with modified and new drivers. My understanding is that condition #2 of The FreeBSD Copyright applies. Which says I only have to reproduce the copyright notice but NOT the source code? Your clarification on this matter is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your attention and time. Tung Nguyen tnguyen@rohan.sdsu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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