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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA535 ; Thu, 04 Feb 93 20:00:18 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: What is the legality of charging for installs? Date: 3 Feb 1993 01:31:45 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kn7a1INNpj1@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <bIQKePhq40@astral.msk.su> <1kirbsINN39r@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu In article <1kirbsINN39r@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) writes: > > What is legal to charge money for, and what is not? You are certainly able to charge money for installing or supporting a 386BSD system. Neither the Berkeley nor GNU licenses prevent this. > Specifically, I would like to include 386bsd as an OS for which I > could custom-install on a certain platform, perhaps even binary-only. At least for the GNU software, you should read the GPL throughly. You would be required to give the `customer' a signed statement indicating that you will make the source available for a nomimal fee at most (the cost of copying) for at least 3 years. (This means the source for the version you installed, not a later version.) -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!