Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:30:21 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd is really bsd? Message-ID: <4EE76F8D.1010908@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAG-YhMvR84-D0MDV42OTLpDKTNiKLUC0Lb-zBzN8VnCssOSFAg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG-YhMvR84-D0MDV42OTLpDKTNiKLUC0Lb-zBzN8VnCssOSFAg@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig47A7CE7D79A9630A3AE31FFD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 13/12/2011 14:46, LinuxIsOne wrote: > Is freebsd simply bsd name, means it is free so they appended the word > 'free' is it like this? Yes, it is really BSD: it is the direct lineal descendant of Unix code released by the University of California, Berkeley. The beginnings of the FreeBSD project were based on the 386BSD code that ultimately came out of BSD 4.3 and 4.4. See here, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.svg "Free" in the sense of "available to use in any way the user may see fit and without onerous licensing terms or fees" -- that's implicit in the BSD part of the name[*]. Still, no harm in repeating ourselves. Besides, it was necessary to distinguish this project from NetBSD and later OpenBSD (plus various other more recent BSD variants). Cheers, Matthew [*] Although you can still be BSD, even under commercial licensing terms and closed source, but in that case, the name tends not to contain those letters. eg. SunOS (before v5), NeXTSTEP, MacOS X. --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enig47A7CE7D79A9630A3AE31FFD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7nb40ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwaiQCeOcnSix0Dc/R6GzaOTGm7xtuz tyEAnjzI6qg9/nc5f6oZarb4wP4LjK7+ =H09C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig47A7CE7D79A9630A3AE31FFD--
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