Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 14:35:54 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Fix this: The Regents of the University of California. Allrights reserved. Message-ID: <4659F9BA.7010503@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCAEBLCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCAEBLCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > what was > historically done with BSD software is when someone wrote a piece of > it they would sign over copyright rights to UCB which would immediately > license the stuff under a license that basically revoked all rights > that a normal copyright owner would have. > > The same thing is done these days with the FreeBSD Project. No. The FreeBSD Project does not take copyright assignments; in fact, since the FreeBSD Project does not legally exist, it isn't possible for the project to take copyright assignments. Where you see "Copyright ... The FreeBSD Project", you're looking at a collective pseudonym, like "Nicolas Bourbaki". Most copyright laws make provisions for authors to publish their work under a pseudonym without it having any effect on the copyright status of a work providing that the real author is identifiable. (This is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer, etc.) Colin Percival
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