Bryan Smith wrote: [ ...format recovered, please set linewrap preference... ]
My name is Bryan and I am wondering if I can freely distribute FreeBSD 5.3.
Yes.
If I can redistribute it, is there anything I need to include with the ISO images when I distribute them?
No. You can redistribute byte-for-byte identical copies of the ISO images from the ftp.freebsd.org servers if you'd like.
I read that I need to include the copyright notice.
That's right. Very probably you will need to include both the BSD /COPYRIGHT file and the GPL /usr/src/gnu/COPYING file somewhere. [1] Of course, the ISO images come with the files containing the copyright and license text.
Do I need to include a seperate document for this copyright notice
(text file or html document) or is the copyright notice in one of the ISO
images (also, is the copyright notice that I would need to add the one found
at http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html)?
The ones that come with the ISO images are fine as far as BSD-licensed and GPL'ed ("GPL-licensed?" :-) software are concerned. Depending on the version of FreeBSD and if you include any ports, you ought to consider:
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/LEGAL
Note that if you modify parts of FreeBSD, especially GPLed parts, you will likely be obligated to make those changes available under the terms of 3b:
" b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,"...unless your changes are included in source form already.
Also, is there a limit on the amount I can redistribute?
No.
-- -Chuck
[1]: Or several somewheres, unfortunately:
11-sec% locate COPYING | wc -l
77I wonder if anyone has arranged for them to be hardlinks to each other? :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
