Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:23:55 -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: <9DBF40B4-7C7B-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <1065300005.20050211231617@wanadoo.fr> References: <p06200708be315f521112@[128.113.24.47]> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEFLFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <649200329.20050211081852@wanadoo.fr> <621dabed4fc2996ae4cb3a2929d6842c@chrononomicon.com> <D73008E2-7C71-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> <420D24EE.40606@tvog.net> <805E7F3C-7C77-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> <1065300005.20050211231617@wanadoo.fr>
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On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > >> many in no way means a majority. many is more than a few, where a few >> is a handful (3-5 or so). There are probably more than a handful who >> do it as more than a hobby. A lot of good people do it on their own >> time as well, and I salute that. But a lot of people like Yahoo and >> others (Apple probably) submit stuff that ends up in FreeBSD and they >> pay their people to do so. Lots of features, like jails as I >> understand it, started off by someone getting paid to implement stuff. > > I hope people are not being as careless as you imply. Being paid to > write code as an employee means relinguishing copyright in the code to > one's employer. If people are actually doing this for FreeBSD, then > some of the code in FreeBSD is owned by their employers, which can > become a legal nightmare and stop the project dead in its tracks > overnight. Aren't there any _lawyers_ working on this project? > Sorry, but the employers are freely offering the code and assigning copyrights as necessary. Chad
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