distrubuting distro

[Erik Trulsson]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Nikolas Britton wrote:
> 
> >Erik Trulsson wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU
> >>GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly
> >>simplified) you need to include the sourcecode for anything you
> >>distribute.)
> >>
> >>In either case it is certainly allowed to sell FreeBSD and charge
> >>whatever you want.  You just can't prevent anybody making further
> >>copies once they have recieved one.
> >> 
> >>
> >If there was no GPL code in FreeBSD he could prevent anybody from 
> >making copys of his copys, as long as he keeps the BSD copyright 
> >notices in there etc he can do anything he wants with it, ANYTHING! 
> >For example the Windows NT network stack was ripped from OpenBSD et. 
> >al. Now if you ask me if it's a sane thing to do I'd say no because 
> >they can just go around him and get it from the FreeBSD site. but the 
> >point I'm trying to make is that he could if he wanted to, even if 
> >it's a stupid idea such as this, because FreeBSD IS "free", unlike the 
> >GPL.
> >
> duh, I forgot the best example. BSD running on a mach kernel running a 
> custom user interface, otherwise known as Mac OS-X.

With the "BSD running on a mach kernel" part also known as Darwim,
which is freely distributable under pretty much the same conditions as
the other BSDs.


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Erik Trulsson
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