From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 4:17:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A038537B503 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 04:17:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22805 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Feb 2001 12:16:57 -0000 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 14:16:57 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: miki.shapiro@eAladdin.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 Quesions Message-ID: <20010201141657.A22291@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from miki.shapiro@eAladdin.com on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:15:26PM +0200 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 2001-02-01 (14:15), miki.shapiro@eAladdin.com wrote: > I would like to ask two questions: > 1. Does the BSD license allow me to take the source of given software, > alter it and use it within a commercial product? Yes, with one or two restrictions, such as the requirement to display the copyright: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > 2. Do all programs registered in the BSD Ports section on your site carry > the BSD license? (Namely their source code)? No, they don't. Not even all the programs in the base system are available under the BSD license. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message