From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jun 11 23:45:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15217 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:45:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15119 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:45:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA16943; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:44:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <35822042.4B4EE59D@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 00:46:26 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: phil grainger CC: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copyright References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG phil grainger wrote: > but if the present copyright makes programmers uncomfortable donating code, > then we should try to accomodate them. I don't know why the BSD copyright would make anyone uncomfortable donating code to the FreeBSD project. Nothing says you have to use the BSD copyright, or any copyright for that matter. The core team may decide not to use it if the copyright is too restrictive, and in the past have decided not to use pieces of code that are GPL'd. That certainly does not in any way lessen the copyright protections emplaced by the author. Most (any, all) FreeBSD contributors use BSD-like copyrights because they believe that is the right way to do it. If you don't, you're still quite free to incorporate FreeBSD into your projects, we aren't coercing you into releasing your source, object, binary, or any other code in any way you are uncomfortable with. On the other hand, science has not yet invented an instrument that can measure how little the FreeBSD community is willing to change their licensing scheme towards any more protective mode. The license requires the user of the code to acknowlege where it came from, in both the documentation and the code itself. For this community, that is more than sufficient, it is desirable. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message