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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
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Subject: Re: What is the legality of charging for installs?
Date: 3 Feb 1993 01:31:45 GMT
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In article <1kirbsINN39r@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
(Vax) writes:
>
> What is legal to charge money for, and what is not?

You are certainly able to charge money for installing or supporting a
386BSD system.  Neither the Berkeley nor GNU licenses prevent this.

> Specifically, I would like to include 386bsd as an OS for which I
> could custom-install on a certain platform, perhaps even binary-only.

At least for the GNU software, you should read the GPL throughly.  You
would be required to give the `customer' a signed statement indicating
that you will make the source available for a nomimal fee at most (the
cost of copying) for at least 3 years.  (This means the source for the
version you installed, not a later version.)

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