Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:34:26 +0100 From: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: question about the copyright Message-ID: <CAEJNuHymCqSbtoddnDA40gROT-=M4fV=DSJsd8sY-649J0sBcA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <62dd152f-7c1a-a177-5224-b9005d04978d@boxsci.com> References: <62dd152f-7c1a-a177-5224-b9005d04978d@boxsci.com>
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 08:27, Warren Hua <warren@boxsci.com> wrote: > > Hello > > I read through this guide: > https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html > > but I am not sure, if I add one or more customized modules (written or > modified by ourselves) to freebsd kernel, and sell the biz service based > on this freebsd hosting, does it break the copyright? > Adding modules and then selling the product is not a problem in itself. The problem is: what licence so you want to attach to the new product? For example, if you did that to the Linux kernel, your only option would be to distribute the new kernel under the GPLv2. I can only guess that you could make a proprietary product out of FreeBSD just by adhering to condition 1 and 2 of the above mentioned licence. Or, even better, you can sell the product under the FreeBSD licence. -- Ottavio Caruso
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