Amit,
There really isn't one because of the nature of the FreeBSD project.
Everything that makes up FreeBSD including the documentation of it
is licensed under either the GPL/GNU license or the BSD license, or
some variant license that is similar to BSD. For example the
documentation for FreeBSD which includes everything on the website,
has a license that is here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/LEGALNOTICE.html
For each version of FreeBSD, there is a file installed in the root
of the version named COPYRIGHT that starts out like this:
$ cat COPYRIGHT
# $FreeBSD: src/COPYRIGHT,v 1.4.24.1 2004/04/30 12:50:48 kensmith Exp $
# @(#)COPYRIGHT 8.2 (Berkeley) 3/21/94
The compilation of software known as FreeBSD is distributed under the
following terms:
followed by a bunch of copyright notices for all organizations and
firms and such that have given permission to FreeBSD to use things.
While in general these licenses are non-restrictive, it is YOUR problem
to determine if you are infringing any of them in your products.
For example, one of the items in the FreeBSD 4.10 copyright reads:
...The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American
National Standards Committee X3, on Information Processing Systems have
given us permission to reprint portions of their documentation...
This means in effect that IEEE and ANSI aren't going to allow you to
lift their stuff out of FreeBSD to use on your site - but they
have given permission to you to redistribute their stuff that is
embedded within FreeBSD.
Similarly to this, the C compiler that is used by FreeBSD is GCC and
that is under the GPL license. Same deal there - just because the
FreeBSD license allows you to use FreeBSD code in a commercial product,
that does not change the license for GCC.
So in summary, what it boils down to is that the people within the
FreeBSD project that could actually research all this for you once
you tell them what you intend on doing, and tell you if your going to
infringe something or not, these people don't work for
free and they are probably too busy to do it anyway. Your going to
have to do it yourself which means you need to learn a lot more about
FreeBSD than you obviously know at this point.
This list can give you some opinions, but you need to explain
what your SPECIFICALLY wanting to do. And in the long run, whether
you use our opinions, form your own, or hire someone to give you
some, this isn't an issue where it is possible to get a blanket
approval from one person over the entire FreeBSD project. This is
an issue where you have to look at FreeBSD, look at what your wanting
to do with it, figure out what parts of it you need to do that, then
decide if your going to step on anyone's toes.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: Amit Pandey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 1980 5:47 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Subject: Re: GPU / GPL
can you give me the correct email then
Amit
- Original Message -
From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Amit Pandey [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 11:06 PM
Subject: RE: GPU / GPL
You got the wrong e-mail address, FreeBSD isn't a version of Linux.
And, nobody that gets mail to this e-mail address can give you any
permission to do anything anyway.
Ted
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Amit Pandey
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 1980 5:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GPU / GPL
Hi
Thinking of adding your version of Linux to my product base , can
i do this as well as using any documentation and logos on your
site - referring to your site with all texts / logos used
Amit
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