FreeBSD = Free Software?
Harald Muehlboeck
home at clef.at
Wed Aug 2 09:59:45 UTC 2006
Dylan Rogers <dylanrogers1 at gmail.com> writes:
> Does FreeBSD contain only free software?
see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD#License>
FreeBSD contains software licensed under BSD-License, LGPL, GPL (which
restricts redistribution without making the source code available),
IP-FILTER (which does not expictly allow to make changes to the code),
Sendmail, ISC-Licensed Software like BIND, ...
It depends on your point of view, if you call these licenses »free«.
Maybe you will prefer OpenBSD:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Licensing>
<http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#ReallyFree>
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