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Date:      Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:12:27 +0100 (CET)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD is Copyrighted but where is the license
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010108081227.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20010104071232.A15438@home.com>

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On 04-Jan-01 Victor R. Cardona wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:12:55PM +0100, Micke Josefsson wrote:
>> I have just read the Business Software Alliance paper on www.bsa.org and they
>> always refer to the license, not a word about copyright there.
>> 
>> I am not allowed to use programs without having a license for it. Does that
>> mean
>> that FreeBSD is out of the question?
> 
> The BSA's policy only applies to software from BSA member companies.

Aha! I did not know that.

> Nobody is going to sue you for using FreeBSD.

I sincerely hope not. I would leave for another job if they forced me to use
anything else. 

Thanks for clearing that up!

/Micke



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