From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 14:57:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE3914C2D for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:57:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA26044; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:57:04 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:57:04 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Gabriel Elder Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: free-bsd license status? In-Reply-To: <000001be7afe$c8744ee0$753e410a@gme002pc.amfam.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Gabriel Elder wrote: # Is FreeBSD distributed under the GNU GPL or some other license? What are the # terms of the license? Is the source code as freely available as FreeBSD / # included with the binaries? All of the soure for FreeBSD is freely available, all in one CVS repository, and mirrored all over the world. Here are the licenses for FreeBSD and the GPL, respectively. http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Some of FreeBSD's utilities are GPL'd, but some (most?) are under some form of the BSD license which you will find here. http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message