From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 15:33:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-49.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B1837B4EC for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:33:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 88AC666F2F; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:33:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:33:01 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Sean O'Sullivan Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: licensing of source code Message-ID: <20010216153301.A97939@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <000001c0986b$3da32ac0$349ca926@lonerpc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000001c0986b$3da32ac0$349ca926@lonerpc>; from seano@fermat.digital-factory.com on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:53:11PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:53:11PM -0800, Sean O'Sullivan wrote: > To Whom It May Concern: >=20 > I am interested in obtaining a licensing agreement for the source code for > the latest version of FreeBSD. I was instructed to e-mail this enquiry to > you by someone at BSDi who said that this was the proper channel to follo= w. > I would appreciate any information you might have on this. Thank you very > much for your attention to this matter and I look forward to hearing from > you. FreeBSD is an open source operating system and the source code is available free of charge for all uses - there is no "licensing agreement" as such. Some components of the system are under the GNU Public License which means there are complications using them in a commercial product, but these components may be easily removed, and the licensing terms on the FreeBSD code itself permits arbitrary reuse with very liberal terms. The license for individual pieces of code is generally contained as comments at the top of the file, but the majority of FreeBSD code is provided under the license contained in /usr/src/COPYRIGHT on a FreeBSD system, or an even less restrictive license. Kris --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6jbitWry0BWjoQKURAtizAJ931ftpP9mKxLonS5UMjPhJ26znGgCggtXv Jw9bXY4YGA1EYUsgrp+tFJ4= =Czsx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message