From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 08:53:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13343 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 08:53:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (root@bogslab.ucdavis.edu [128.120.162.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13332 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 08:53:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from myrtle1.bogs.org (root@myrtle1.bogs.org [198.137.203.39]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA29748 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 08:53:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from myrtle1.bogs.org (greg@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by myrtle1.bogs.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA21956 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 08:39:16 -0800 Message-Id: <199803261639.IAA21956@myrtle1.bogs.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: licensing question In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:06:39 EST." Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 08:38:53 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Robert Jackson cleopede: >Well the OS is free, so as long as the maker didn't charge for it... I >don't think there would be too much of a hassle, but don't quote me i\on >that, these are just my assumptions. >On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, H.Ozawa wrote: >> I'm just wondering if a company could just sell a system run by FreeBSD >> or if there is a need to license. I think they could charge for installation, configuration, and/or optimizing FreeBSD on a system, just not for the OS itself. This is exactly parallel to what a FreeBSD CD-ROM vendor does. -Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message