Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:57:06 +1000 From: Andrew Johns <A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au> To: ynishimura@home.nimc.go.jp Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About licence of usage of FreeBSD Message-ID: <3755EF02.6A25D3DF@TurnAround.com.au> References: <49256785.000EF0A6.00@cmnotesx.nimc.go.jp>
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ynishimura@home.nimc.go.jp wrote: > > Dear sirs > > I am a reseacher working at a Laboratory in Japan. > This is my first letter I write you. > > I have a queston about licence of use of freebsd and application. > > There are found many kinds of pruducts using freebsd and linux at Interop 99 > Tokyo started yesterday. > Hitachi liked to sell convienient DHCP Server based on freebsd and WIDE-DHCP and > some company liked to sell CD-ROM server based on Linux. > > 1)What they try to sell lead you to take loss or not? > > 2)Do you know there are many such kinds of products in the market, now. > > 3)If you complained these kind of products, they can distribute their software > at free of charge seperately from their hardware. > > They are saying they can use linux and freebsd in their products because they > are free and there are many such kind of products in TAIWAN. And they says they > are selling their hardware and linux/freebsd instalation services not Unix > themselves. > > I don't like to see the trouble of copyright or something like that after our > purchases. > > Please let us know your opinions To quote from the Handbook (http://www.au.freebsd.org/handbook/goals.html): "The goals of the FreeBSD Project are to provide software that may be used for any purpose and without strings attached. Many of us have a significant investment in the code (and project) and would certainly not mind a little financial compensation now and then, but we're definitely not prepared to insist on it. We believe that our first and foremost ``mission'' is to provide code to any and all comers, and for whatever purpose, so that the code gets the widest possible use and provides the widest possible benefit. This is, I believe, one of the most fundamental goals of Free Software and one that we enthusiastically support. That code in our source tree which falls under the GNU General Public License (GPL) or Library General Public License (LGPL) comes with slightly more strings attached, though at least on the side of enforced access rather than the usual opposite. Due to the additional complexities that can evolve in the commercial use of GPL software, we do, however, endeavor to replace such software with submissions under the more relaxed BSD copyright when reasonable to do so." -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 98, NT, Linux or better' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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