Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:39:11 -0800 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!! Message-ID: <200502121239.12355.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <491919829.20050212110744@wanadoo.fr> References: <467538167.20050211234639@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEFNFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <491919829.20050212110744@wanadoo.fr>
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On Saturday 12 February 2005 02:07 am, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > The committers do know about this and are careful about it. You > > will note that this is discussed more fully here: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/co > >ntrib- how.html > > > > under the section: > > > > New Code or Major Value-Added Packages > > > > I am very surprised that you missed this. Could it be made any > > more obvious? > > Yes, it could be made about a thousand times more obvious. It should > be right on the first page of the site, not buried in the > documentation. > > And it is still a bit worrisome, because it says "When working with > large amounts of code, the touchy subject of copyrights also > invariably comes up." Unfortunately, copyright applies to small > amounts of code, too, not just large amounts. Even a few lines can > lead to litigation if the copyright status of those lines is not > verified and cleared before they are incorporated into the product. I think it's great that you're volunteering to do this. Keep us updated on your status! - jt
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