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Date:      Thu, 26 Mar 1998 08:38:53 -0800
From:      Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: licensing question 
Message-ID:  <199803261639.IAA21956@myrtle1.bogs.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:06:39 EST." <Pine.3.89.9803261152.F19097-0100000@dc.seflin.org.> 

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In message <Pine.3.89.9803261152.F19097-0100000@dc.seflin.org.>, 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

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