On Thu, 15 May 1997, Masato Hirose wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I hear BSD's net code is free.
> But is it true for commercial purpose?
> 
> For example, I think about the case that a company make
> the embedded system (such as PDA, digital-TV, and so on)
> from BSD's net code.

	Congratulations - you've put your finger on a critical difference
	between BSD & GPL(linux) copyright.

	Essentially you can take BSD code, modify/sell do just about
	anything with it as long as you state you are using some code from
	the authors.

	With GPL you also _have_ to make available the full source of
	your modifications. (You _can_ do this with code under a BSD
	licence, but you are not obliged to).

                David/abs               abs@anim.dreamworks.com

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