From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 24 13:20:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58AE437B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:20:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8DE143FE3 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:20:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from homer.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF03143F39; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:17:04 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC To: Terry Lambert , omestre Subject: Re: bootp_subr.c forget it. Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:25:37 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <3E5A4CC1.F96C7191@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3E5A4CC1.F96C7191@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302241325.38020.wes@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 24 February 2003 08:48 am, Terry Lambert wrote: > omestre wrote: > > > Of course that the FreeBSD code will not have my name, and > > company! That is the code that i did for MY company! What i wanted > > was share is the solution! If you will supress my name or > > everything, is not my problem. > > If i change a bit, a letter... in a source code, i will allways > > put my name. Not because the rights, but because the errors! Then i > > break the software, the errors are mine, this is justice. > > The license issues are very serious to the community. FreeBSD > could not, in good conscience, rip off your code without giving you > the credit you asked for in your patch. We have other ways of noting donations to the project as well. The primary one is the "Obtained From:" header in the CVS commit, where sponsored changes like this can be noted without affecting the copyright in any way. Please consider using this if it is sufficient for you and your employers needs. > I think that the community would be willing to take responsibility > for any bugs that it was willing to commit to the source tree. Yes, we are, and we are also very willing to give credit. We don't want to create anymore licensing nightmare than we already have if we can avoid it. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message