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Date:      Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:20:02 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        Scott Parrish <scottp@inetport.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: distribution of FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615210811.169D-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35859348.51FD0C75@inetport.com>

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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Scott Parrish wrote:

>We have developed a server product that requires FreeBSD or Linux (we
>want it to be FreeBSD)

Great! You know FreeBSD runs Yahoo and cdrom.com right?

>My question is - is there a Lic. fee of some kind if we distribute
>FreeBSD in our server product ? 

No. FreeBSD is more free(dom) that Linux in this respect due to the nature
of the Berkely license.

>I was unable to locate any info on this subject on the web site.

See /usr/src/COPYRIGHT\
http://www.freebwd.org/availability.html
http://www.freebwd.org/handbook/handbook4.html

>Our Co. has plans to make donations to the FreeBSD org - say $xx.xx
>number of dollars
>for every copy we distribute - but we have not come up with a fig. yet.

I am certain this will be appreciated. There is information about this on
the website.

>Again, we are a small start up Co. and are working on a very small
>margin.
>
>We know how much work has gone into FreeBSD and I will make sure that the
>FreeBSD org get something in return. 

Good luck!

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/
			|	206-633-5994


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