Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:27:49 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is Copyrighted but where is the license Message-ID: <20010104132749.A68162@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010104121255.mj@isy.liu.se>; from mj@isy.liu.se on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:12:55PM %2B0100 References: <XFMail.010104121255.mj@isy.liu.se>
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:12:55PM +0100, Micke Josefsson wrote: > This may sound like a silly question and perhaps it is, but: > > Do we have a FreeBSD LICENSE? There is a COPYRIGHT, but is there a LICENSE > somewhere? Are the two the same? If you compare some LICENSE files with the COPYRIGHT you see that it's like this: +---------------------------------------------------- | copyright issue | | redistribution and use rules | So in this case, yeah they're the same file with a different name. Keep in mind that you're only talking about the filenames, not about the contents. > I am not allowed to use programs without having a license for it. Does that mean > that FreeBSD is out of the question? Do you explicite need a written license (i.e. written on paper) or is an electronic license also good? In that case, have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/copyright.html and http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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