Summary: | Legal/License FreeBSD sale on custom hardware | ||
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Product: | Base System | Reporter: | pr3tty8oyfl0yd |
Component: | misc | Assignee: | FreeBSD Core Team <core> |
Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | allanjude, emaste, gnn, pi |
Priority: | --- | ||
Version: | CURRENT | ||
Hardware: | Any | ||
OS: | Any |
Description
pr3tty8oyfl0yd
2016-06-14 18:35:31 UTC
The link to the FreeBSD license: https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html From my reading (I'm not representing the FreeBSD project, so take it with a grain of salt): If they redistribute in binary form, they must mention the FreeBSD copyright notice. It's probably much more useful if the company sends a mail to the stable@ mailinglist pointing to the hardware/product they sell, explain a bit about it and let us know that they use FreeBSD... As far as I am aware (I am not a lawyer), it would actually be a bigger concern if they were advertising it as FreeBSD, they must follow the terms of use for the trademark: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/legal/trademark-usage-terms-and-conditions/ and the Logo: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about/project/ Please contact the FreeBSD Foundation [1] with details if you have specific concerns. The PR system isn't really intended for general discussion on topics like this; please follow up on the FreeBSD forums [2] or on the FreeBSD-questions mailing list [3]. Links: [1] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about/contact-us/ [2] https://forums.freebsd.org/ [3] https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions |