Port restrictions: Redistribution for profit is not permitted.
Christian Weisgerber
naddy at mips.inka.de
Sun Feb 8 15:59:12 PST 2004
Constantine <cnst at rbcmail.ru> wrote:
> As a university student, I am considering to be a FreeBSD maintainer of
> some programming language developed by my professor. He has certain
> restrictions on his work --- "Redistribution for profit is not
> permitted." --- he does not want anyone to be able to change a few lines
> in his code and sale it for profit. :-)
This would imply NO_CDROM, since FreeBSD CDs are (potentially) sold
with profit. Distribution by FTP should be fine.
> I see that I would need to use RESTRICTED variable. In this case, will
> the package still be included on the discs and FTP-sites?
No, which is the point of RESTRICTED. However, for a "not for sale"
license, RESTRICTED is overly strict.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
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