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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) Subject: Re: HELP Needed: Linux & BSD Unix In-Reply-To: mark@www.netgoth.com's message of Sun, 12 May 1996 00:08:08 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: woodlawn.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <xcdafzespnt.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> To: mark@netgoth.com Lines: 11 Sender: csdayton@woodlawn.uchicago.edu Organization: uchi.comp.unix viper cabal X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960510184925.26923A-100000@leonis.nus.sg> <Dr9n1L.8rn@logical.net> Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 00:25:58 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:103131 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1011 Our friend, mark@www.netgoth.com (Mark Menard), wrote: > FreeBSD and Linux are both freeware. this is _very_ false. the linux kernel is gpl'ed. all of FreeBSD is either under a BSD style license or a GPL. This makes them freely redistributeable, but _not_ freeware. The authors still have copyright and there are a lot of restrictions on use in commercial settings on code under a GPL. Soren