Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:50:42 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: tnguyen@rohan.sdsu.edu (T. Nguyen) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Copyright Message-ID: <199803051850.NAA01541@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199803051829.KAA11832@rohan.sdsu.edu> from "T. Nguyen" at "Mar 5, 98 10:29:30 am"
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T. Nguyen said: > > 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? > FreeBSD (as long as you don't add GPLed code to the kernel or runtime) does not encumber your ideas or source code in any way. If you want to redistribute binary code as licensed with the BSD or BSD-like licenses, you do not encur any obligation to redistribute source code, or have to expose your ideas and inventions to the public. The above idea is one of the hallmarks of the very free BSD license terms. Secondarily, companies often contribute non-strategic works back into the *BSD source trees so that they offload some of the support work back into the *BSD team efforts. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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