Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 19:50:37 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: ynishimura@home.nimc.go.jp Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About licence of usage of FreeBSD Message-ID: <199906030250.TAA23894@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 1999 11:42:26 %2B0900." <49256785.000EF0A6.00@cmnotesx.nimc.go.jp>
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>I have a queston about licence of use of freebsd and application. > >There are found many kinds of pruducts using freebsd and linux at Interop 99 >Tokyo started yesterday. >Hitachi liked to sell convienient DHCP Server based on freebsd and WIDE-DHCP and >some company liked to sell CD-ROM server based on Linux. > >1)What they try to sell lead you to take loss or not? No, since there is no 'profit', there is nothing to lose. FreeBSD is free to be used in embedded applications (like DHCP servers) or whatever, without restriction. >2)Do you know there are many such kinds of products in the market, now. Yes. >3)If you complained these kind of products, they can distribute their software >at free of charge seperately from their hardware. > > They are saying they can use linux and freebsd in their products because they >are free and there are many such kind of products in TAIWAN. And they says they >are selling their hardware and linux/freebsd instalation services not Unix >themselves. > >I don't like to see the trouble of copyright or something like that after our >purchases. > >Please let us know your opinions We encourage companies to use FreeBSD in their products and are happy to see this happening. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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