About Resellers

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:33:33PM +0300, Demetris Terlikas wrote:

> Do you have any reseller in cyprus?Because if you have got anyone in
> my country I would like to become one.

Reseller probably isn't quite the right word, as the FreeBSD project
isn't a commercial organisation.  It's basically a bunch of people
who've got together to develop an operating system.

So, there's no licensing or any other issues which prevent you from
selling FreeBSD installation CD-Rom sets, much like DaemonNews
(BSDMall) and FreeBSDMall do in the USA:

    http://www.bsdmall.com/
    http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm

On the other hand, there's no formal support from the FreeBSD project
either.  Of course, people are quite often happy to volunteer and help
out where this is seen as aiding the project as a whole, but it's
going to be up to you to put together your product and do all of the
marketing etc.  If you're selling boxed copies of the installer disks,
it's usual to use the disc1 and disc2 .iso images from one of the
FreeBSD FTP sites, and add a DVD or a couple more CD Roms filled with
packages to the bundle.

It's usual, but not obligatory, to make some sort of contribution back
towards the running costs of the project if you sell CD Roms, books,
stickers, tee-shirts etc. derived from FreeBSD stuff.  Note that the
BSD daemon logo is copyright Marshall Kirk McKusic and you will need
explicit permission from him if you intend to use that image.  See:

    http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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