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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Selling 386BSD
Message-ID: <7ICIDTC@taronga.com>
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
References: <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> <1992Aug14.195609.29096@gateway.novell.com> <1992Aug15.000313.15593@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 13:29:34 GMT
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In article <1992Aug15.000313.15593@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> sim@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peng-Toh Sim) writes:
>Is it ok to sell 386BSD for a distribution fee like that for GNU
>software and then sell support for it?
Yes.
>Is 386BSD strictly not for use at a commercial site?
No.
I am concerned about the development of such anti-commercial licenses in
this product, because I want to some day be able to buy or recommend to
my non-computer-literate relatives a UNIX like novice-friendly O/S. If
386BSD gets encumbered with lots of little licensing restrictions this
will never happen.
If you want to form your own Free Software Foundation, go ahead. But don't
try to turn this into one.
--
`-_-'
Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U`
Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX +1 713 568 0480/1032