From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:29:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C8416A4E5 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:29:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth01.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth01.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F08E43D1F for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:29:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=[192.168.63.10]) by smtpauth01.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1CzjHz-00071A-3v; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:29:27 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:29:56 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <389541039.20050211231100@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <389541039.20050211231100@wanadoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502111629.56680.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bcd850eff20c8585abebf7a98e6a8a11ec350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 cc: Anthony Atkielski Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:29:28 -0000 On Friday 11 February 2005 04:11 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > > Many of the people that work > > on it are paid to work on it by their employers, who are using it > > commercially. > > That would mean that their employers hold a copyright in the FreeBSD > code written by their employees; this is a classic implicit > work-for-hire arrangement. Have these people signed an agreement with > their employers that waives the work-for-hire copyright interest? That's an assumption. We could as easily assume that the employers: 1. contribute the employees' work back to the project under a free license as to benefit from improvements that might be made by the FreeBSD Project; and 2. keep secret stuff out of the FreeBSD Project so that it stays secret; and 3. make policies regarding points #1 and #2 very clear to the developer at the beginning of the employment relationship. We can assume this or that until my keyboard runs out of monitor ink; but there's been enough cynicism for one week. Happy Friday, Andrew Gould