BSD and copyright issues

Remko Lodder remko at elvandar.org
Tue Apr 13 14:21:28 PDT 2004


davjos wrote:
> Hi, I expect this is a question you get asked a lot these days, but in 
> the light of SCO claims to ownership of Unix copyright and their legal 
> action against IBM etc. What is the copyright/legal position with 
> respect to FreeBSD?

Hey Mags,

For what i know (and i really did not look into copyright's etc)
is that BSD has a "Free License" you can do anything with it. It's more 
free than GPL. and even OpenBSD like's it (and they are really into free 
  software nowayadays)

hope this shed a little light..

Cheers
> 
> regards, Mags.

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Remko Lodder
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