Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:16:50 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: "Diener, Michael" <Michael.Diener@wilmerhale.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: license terms Message-ID: <420286B2.3070005@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <93DB9233B42C2844B0A1B7E8B94D99C3021B3652@HDBOSMX.haleanddorr.com> References: <93DB9233B42C2844B0A1B7E8B94D99C3021B3652@HDBOSMX.haleanddorr.com>
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Diener, Michael wrote: > If someone is using FreeBSD and 4.4BSD, are the FreeBSD Copyright > and 4.4BSD Copyright the only agreements that apply? > > The legal page has links to GNU licenses, so it is not clear if > those licenses also have some applicability, or in what cases they > might apply. 1st, don't sue me if I'm wrong :-) There are some gnu tools distributed with the base system - or at lease with the base source - that are under GPL. Nothing vital (system will run) as far as I can see, but anoying without: grep, cvs, patch, diff, gzip, cc... I think they can be omitted if you choose to, maybe see make.conf for options. I could imagine that cvs be replaced by opencvs, the openbsd team started developing that. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2
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