Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 03:01:53 GMT From: Marty Cawthon <mrc@ChipChat.com> To: ynishimura@home.nimc.go.jp Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, einoue@chipchat.ne.jp Subject: Re: About licence of usage of FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990603030153T.mrc@ChipChat.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:42:26 %2B0900" <49256785.000EF0A6.00@cmnotesx.nimc.go.jp> References: <49256785.000EF0A6.00@cmnotesx.nimc.go.jp>
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Nishimura-san, Konnichi-wa! > Dear sirs > > I am a reseacher working at a Laboratory in Japan. > This is my first letter I write you. Welcome! > 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. > Good news! > 1)What they try to sell lead you to take loss or not? FreeBSD and Linux, also NetBSD and OpenBSD are free software. Free = no cost also Free = Source code is available, you have freedom to change that code. > 2)Do you know there are many such kinds of products in the market, now. FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD are all excellent software. This is better quality than some software that costs money. Many volunteers work hard to make this possible. It is "community effort" - with Internet that community is worldwide. Companies that create products using software are welcome to use FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. There is no requirement to pay a license fee. > 3)If you complained these kind of products, they can distribute their software > at free of charge seperately from their hardware. Nobody will complain! The volunteers who create these products are very happy to see them being used. > 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. If their product includes Linux, then they MUST make source code available to the customer. If their product includes BSD (FreeBSD or NetBSD or OpenBSD) then they are not required to include source code. BSD and Linux both make source code available to everybody. You can buy on a CD-ROM (convenient, costs maybe $50. US) Or you can download all source code from the Internet - no charge! Both are excellent software. Of course, each person has their favorite. My favorite is FreeBSD. > I don't like to see the trouble of copyright or something like that after our > purchases. > > Please let us know your opinions > > Sincerely > Y.NISHIMURA If you use FreeBSD you can make many copies - no fee. Also, if you create a product, and you need an operating system, you can use FreeBSD (or Linux or NetBSD or OpenBSD). You have all the source code available to you. Please look at http://www.FreeBSD.org/ja Very Interesting! Marty Cawthon ChipChat http://www.ChipChat.com http://www.ChipChat.ne.jp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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