Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 10:48:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: gilley <gilley@netunlimited.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Is this illegal?] Message-ID: <19980314104831.06328@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3509847F.6AB2653A@netunlimited.net>; from gilley on Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 07:09:52PM %2B0000 References: <3509847F.6AB2653A@netunlimited.net>
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On Fri, 13 March 1998 at 19:09:52 +0000, gilley wrote: > > I noticed the following output from my ISP. > Can they run academic versions for profit? That depends on the licensing. > Also I have seen that they run "Unregested BSD" > for there servers. It does not say FreeBSD. Can > They do that? I know linux is completely free > but the only version of BSD they could use would > be FreeBSD or NetBSD, yes? I don't see why your ISP shouldn't be running FreeBSD. A large number do. But neither FreeBSD nor NetBSD produce a message "unregistered BSD". > Please let me know if they are doing > something illegal here. You should try to find out what version of BSD they're running. Possibly it's a demo version of BSD/OS, in which case there's a chance that they are doing something in contravention of the license. If you can get shell access to the machine, 'uname -a' will tell you. You could also check with BSDI, I suppose. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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