From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 11:54:33 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 57BEF16A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:54:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADE6C43D46 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:54:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j1CBsZj33921 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:54:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:54:34 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <163678746.20050212124602@wanadoo.fr> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don'tchange Beastie to another crap logo suchas 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: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:54:33 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 3:46 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please > don'tchange Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!! > > > > It surprises and worries me that anyone does it, for precisely the > reasons that you describe. Should I ever contribute code to FreeBSD, > I'll just assign the copyright, or release the code to the public > domain. I have to wonder about the motivations of someone who says he > wants to contribute to a Great Cause but then insists on retaining his > copyright. > I'm sure in those instances that there's nothing wrong, but I am concerned that there doesen't seem to be effort to disclosing the copyrights in a central and obvious location. (and no, buried in a readme file that is written to the root of the installed filesystem isn't where I'm talking about. We don't want to put up any speed bumps to a company that wants to use the code in a product. I did know about the networking code, I've seen those other copyrights before. But I didn't know that it had got further than that. > Remember that in some jurisdictions, copyright reverts to the author > after a certain number of years, no matter what he says to the > contrary. > This includes the U.S.; see 17 USC 203. > Whic could probably be got around easily by having the FreeBSD foundation pay him a dollar for software development, in which case he can simply say the entire project is a work for hire. Ted