From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 27 21:37:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A072C16A421 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 21:37:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750DE13C44B for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 21:37:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.108]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JIP00C84YOE8NE0@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 15:36:14 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JIP00DYWYO8DT80@pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 15:36:14 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JIP00ESNYO7OH90@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 15:36:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 11668 invoked from network); Sun, 27 May 2007 21:35:54 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hexahedron.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Sun, 27 May 2007 21:35:54 +0000 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 14:35:54 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: To: Ted Mittelstaedt Message-id: <4659F9BA.7010503@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070511) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Christian Walther Subject: Re: Fix this: The Regents of the University of California. Allrights reserved. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 21:37:20 -0000 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