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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.galt.com!phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu!alex From: alex@pc.cc.cmu.edu (alex wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD free? Date: 6 Dec 1994 20:21:21 GMT Organization: Phred Networking Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3c2h41$oq2@dagny.galt.com> References: <1994Dec2.033418.18026@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <KSTAILEY.94Dec6121810@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] > You are talking about the General Public Licence (GPL) not just Linux. > Tell me that FreeBSD doesn't come with at least some GPLed code (uucp, > sort, bc, &c.). Under the GPL you are not forced to give away > anything, but if you distribute the binaries you cannot restrict > access to the source. FreeBSD and NetBSD both have no GPLed code in the kernel. NetBSD makes a point of having as little as possible elsewhere, but FreeBSD makes the decision on a program by program basis (or this is what was going a while ago, and as far as I know neither group has changed their stance). alex