From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:52:44 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 AA71B16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:52:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797B243D49 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:52:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.43) id 1CzjeW-000Hbs-52 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:52:44 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <467538167.20050211234639@wanadoo.fr> References: <805E7F3C-7C77-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> <1065300005.20050211231617@wanadoo.fr> <200502111436.36427.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <467538167.20050211234639@wanadoo.fr> Message-Id: From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:52:43 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on hobbiton.shire.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,PLING_PLING autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1+cvs (built Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:44:05 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hobbiton.shire.net) 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 22:52:44 -0000 On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Joshua Tinnin writes: > >> I don't think you understand the history of FreeBSD. Many people who >> work at Yahoo! are committers, and their employer not only knows about >> this but encourages it. > > That's not good enough. The employer has to assign its copyrights as > well, or waive the usual work-for-hire arrangement that is implicit for > employees writing code within the scope of their work. > >> To what end? > > I'd hate to see FreeBSD become unavailable because of copyright issues. > A lot of organizations are buried by this type of litigation. And > frankly, the cavalier attitude about such serious questions that I > sometimes see displayed does not reassure me. > This is not the right place to ask such questions. If you are *seriously* concerned about this, and do not think that the FreeBSD core / foundation and their lawyers have not thought about this, then you should bring it up with them, and perhaps do a little leg work yourself and go through the codebase and make sure. Chad