Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 10:34:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nicasio@fis.uncor.edu (Oscar Nicasio) Cc: info@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial use... Message-ID: <199509121734.KAA21899@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9509121556.AA16183@fis.uncor.edu> from "Oscar Nicasio" at Sep 12, 95 11:56:34 am
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> I'a interested in using FreeBSD 2.0.5 in an commercial aplication, more > specifically as plataform for several Internet servers (ftp, http, etc). > What must be done for using FreeBSD in a completely legal way? > I eill be very grateful to you if you could give me a precise answer. > Sincerely yours, If you sell it as a whole, the GPL'ed user level applications will either have to have source provided or you will need to offer to provide source for two years, or point to two locations where source may be obtained. Obviously, the system is completely usable for what you want to do without any GPL'ed software loaded, though having a compiler can be handy. If you are just interested in the BSD code itself, or in *using* the code instead of boxing it up and selling it, well then there are no restrictions. You are free to do anything you want with it. If you omit the GPL'ed code, then you are free to box it up and sell it without sources if you want to do that. The obvious benefit to you of rolling any improvements you make back into the main line source tree (by way of placing them under UCB style copyright) is that when you decide to update, you won't have to reintegrate your fixes or maintain a seperate source tree. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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