On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> Yes, it is really BSD: it is the direct lineal descendant of Unix code > released by the University of California, Berkeley. The beginnings of > the FreeBSD project were based on the 386BSD code that ultimately came > out of BSD 4.3 and 4.4. See here, for instance: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.svg > "Free" in the sense of "available to use in any way the user may see fit > and without onerous licensing terms or fees" -- that's implicit in the > BSD part of the name[*]. Still, no harm in repeating ourselves. > Besides, it was necessary to distinguish this project from NetBSD and > later OpenBSD (plus various other more recent BSD variants). > Cheers, > Matthew > [*] Although you can still be BSD, even under commercial licensing terms > and closed source, but in that case, the name tends not to contain those > letters. eg. SunOS (before v5), NeXTSTEP, MacOS X. Oh I see. Thanks for the explanation. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
