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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: What is the legality of charging for installs?
Date: 1 Feb 93 02:12:55
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In-reply-to: vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu's message of 1 Feb 1993 09:43:24 GMT
In article <1kirbsINN39r@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) writes:
>Specifically, I would like to include 386bsd as an OS for which
>I could custom-install on a certain platform, perhaps even
>binary-only. Opinions, anyone?
this would seem to count as "consulting" to me...
i see no problem w/charging for it, as long as you don't
do slimy things like claim that you wrote it...
for the GNU software, you might be required to let people know
where they can obtain the sources, or something, but that should
be no problem...
happy hunting!
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
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