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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: John Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: License number Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 10:49:50 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 25 Message-ID: <325FBE1E.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <325F0948.27F5@dznet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-961004-SNAP i386) Doney Jimenez wrote: > > Hello all. > Does anybody know for how many users is the license that comes with > FREEBSD? > Does FREEBSD have NFS? > Thanks you all. On FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Linux, it isn't a license limitation, it is a hardware/software interaction limitation. In Microsoft-eze, with the free U**X clones, you have an unlimited license, with absolutely no per user/client license fee. As a user or developer of FreeBSD, you have practically the same rights to the released software as the various core team members do. You can even strike off on your own and create Doney-BSD if you want with the FreeBSD sources. I believe that there are few (if any) tools that are restrictively copyrighted, and those would only be install tools... There are some commercial bits from other sources that *might* disallow further redistribution -- but those aren't actually a direct part of FreeBSD either, but are distributed as a convienience for the end-user and for the company promoting their products. John dyson@freebsd.org