FreeBSD License

[David Johnson]

On Saturday 25 November 2000 04:30 am, Jens Müller wrote:
> Does anyone know under what license the CD set is?
>
> The website says if one wants to sell them, he should buy the originals.
> Is it prohibited to copy and sell them, i.e. are they not OS?

The ISOs might be under a specific license, but the CDs themselves are not, 
unlike the typical Linux CD. The individual components have their own 
licenses and there is no "umbrella" license over the collection that I can 
find. However, the CD as a whole is still under an implicit copyright. You 
can't go buy a set then burn identical copies and sell those (ditto for 
Redhat, SuSE, and most other Linux distros that include proprietary demos and 
stuff).

99% of the CDs are under the open source licenses. The text of the "Complete 
FreeBSD" book is included on the CD, but you don't have permission to 
redistribute it. There may be a few additional packages in the ports 
collection that have a free-but-don't-sell license (such as rogue).

In all cases, however, you are allowed to give/transfer to CD to someone 
else. And you can burn 99% of the CDs and distribute those for money.

-- 
David Johnson
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