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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP Needed: Linux & BSD Unix
Date: 13 May 1996 11:50:34 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) wrote:
> Our friend, mark@www.netgoth.com (Mark Menard), wrote:
>
> > FreeBSD and Linux are both freeware.
>
> this is _very_ false. the linux kernel is gpl'ed. all of FreeBSD is
> either under a BSD style license or a GPL. This makes them freely
> redistributeable, but _not_ freeware.
``Freely redistributable'' is what ``freeware'' means. What you've
meant is ``public domain'', where the author even doesn't care about
mentioning his authorship.
Of course, {Free,Net,Open}BSD and Linux _are_ freeware.
--
J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j