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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!news!kstailey From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD free? Date: 06 Dec 1994 17:18:10 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 12 Message-ID: <KSTAILEY.94Dec6121810@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <1994Dec2.033418.18026@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <3bnmk9$g33@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 2 Dec 1994 17:47:53 GMT >FreeBSD is about as free as you can get, aside from PD. With Linux you >are forced to give away any changes you make to the OS, and you can't >provide binary distributions UNLESS you offer to provide source code to >it. 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. Ken