Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:52:43 -0700 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! Message-ID: <A38D6EB4-7C7F-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <467538167.20050211234639@wanadoo.fr> References: <p06200708be315f521112@[128.113.24.47]> <805E7F3C-7C77-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> <1065300005.20050211231617@wanadoo.fr> <200502111436.36427.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <467538167.20050211234639@wanadoo.fr>
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On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Joshua Tinnin writes: > >> I don't think you understand the history of FreeBSD. Many people who >> work at Yahoo! are committers, and their employer not only knows about >> this but encourages it. > > That's not good enough. The employer has to assign its copyrights as > well, or waive the usual work-for-hire arrangement that is implicit for > employees writing code within the scope of their work. > >> To what end? > > I'd hate to see FreeBSD become unavailable because of copyright issues. > A lot of organizations are buried by this type of litigation. And > frankly, the cavalier attitude about such serious questions that I > sometimes see displayed does not reassure me. > This is not the right place to ask such questions. If you are *seriously* concerned about this, and do not think that the FreeBSD core / foundation and their lawyers have not thought about this, then you should bring it up with them, and perhaps do a little leg work yourself and go through the codebase and make sure. Chad
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