From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 4:25:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2B114FD0 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 04:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA07057; Mon, 10 May 1999 13:25:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:25:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: Daniel de Rauglaudre Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: May I be inspired by your license for my product? In-Reply-To: <3736A9CF.48FE8B2@inria.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 May 1999, Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote: > Sorry if people often ask you this question, but I would like to change > the license for my product (Camlp4, a preprocessor for the language > Ocaml, free of charge distributed with the sources), and I would know if > I am allowed to be inspired by the "FreeBSD Copyright" I found at: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html >=20 > changing BSD into INRIA (my company)? As far as I know you are free to use this license after applying the necessary modification. I'd be very surprised if you were not allowed to use it. > I had decided to use the GPL, but people are telling me it is too > restrictive, e.g. forbidding people to add it in commercial packages, > what I don't want to forbid, even if Camlp4 is free. You may take a look at http://www.daemonnews.org. The issues from April and May have some articles about this subject. Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _____= __=20 // Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __= / _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/= // / // Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___= /____/=20 // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----= - // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message