Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:54:33 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: BSD license questions Message-ID: <20000907115433.A19971@mammalia.org>
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Does the BSD license make it so that, even if a proprietary (binary only) piece of software is derived from BSD, that software must be freely distributable by anyone? That is the impression I get by reading this section of the license: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. How can a company, like BSDI for example, charge for single user/multi user licenses for their software if the BSD license allows one to make copies? Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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