From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 15 19:59:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DFB31065693 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:59:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout023.mac.com (asmtpout023.mac.com [17.148.16.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377718FC08 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:59:54 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp023.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KXW004NEFJUWG30@asmtp023.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:59:54 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=1 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1002150182 From: Chuck Swiger X-Priority: 3 In-reply-to: Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:59:54 -0800 Message-id: <57D9D0DA-5D1E-427A-B4D8-54FD8F0E8726@mac.com> References: To: tristan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: free bsd license X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:59:55 -0000 On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:38 AM, tristan wrote: > is the FreeBSD-8.0-amd.iso itself under the bsd license? Mostly; there's a compilation copyright associated with the FreeBSD ISO images, but some of the components of FreeBSD are under the GPL (notably the GCC compiler toolchain), and possibly CDDL for stuff from Sun like ZFS. > i mean the free bsd operating system, not the software > i plan to modify then redistribute it, under a new name. it will remain under the same license, with the same copyright docs, but the help or other docs will be gone, my own put in. > (just trying to give as much details as possible, I'm new to this) There's nothing wrong with what you propose, although there is or should be a preference towards making improvements with the existing documentation rather than simply forking it and rolling something new. Regards, -- -Chuck PS: IANAL, TINLA. Cave canem.