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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>
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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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