Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:18:12 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donating Copyrights? Message-ID: <19990313231812.29016@panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199902262335.QAA24415@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 04:35:28PM -0700 References: <199902262155.OAA23690@mt.sri.com> <10349.920071223@zippy.cdrom.com> <199902262335.QAA24415@mt.sri.com>
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On 1999-02-26 16:35:28 -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > > There are no files in the entire FreeBSD kernel distribution that are > > > assigned to FreeBSD Inc. (which is the company you and David started if > > > I understand things correctly). > > > > Correct. > > > > > Why is this copyright there? 'wosch' added it, but I have no idea since > > > he had no right to assign the kernel or any files to this. > > > > I have no idea either, perhaps because John Fieber had originally > > copyrighted the handbook this way (not at my urging) Wolfram saw this > > as a statement of general intent or something. > > Ahh, that makes sense. > > > AFAIK, the handbook > > and web pages have been changed to "(C) The FreeBSD Project" which > > doesn't actually mean anything per-se and is probably why FreeBSD, > > Inc. was chosen before - it seemed just a little more tangible. > > > > But it's no skin off my nose either way, that's for sure. > > So, should the copyright be updated to the project? Yes, I will do it. -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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