From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 25 19:59: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679A714DD6 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:58:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (licia@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20497; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:58:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:58:27 -0600 (CST) From: Licia To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Donating Copyrights? In-Reply-To: <199902260022.QAA02823@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > A thread I've seen elsewhere caused me to begin wondering, is there some > > sort of process, program, etc for people to donate the copyrights of various > > things to the FreeBSD project if they wish to? > > You can assign the copyright of anything you create to another entity > simply by listing that entity as the copyright owner when you produce > it. Eg. list "FreeBSD Inc." as the copyright owner in the standard BSD > copyright text. See lots of NetBSD code for how they do this. > Hmm, but what if that entity doesn't -want- the copyright, and does not want their name/trademarks/etc associated with it? :) I was asking more about some sort of review/permission process :) [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/~licia/ ] [ Alias : Ladywolf] [ Telnet to o-o.org and log in as bbs ] [ ssh -l bbs -C o-o.org ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] main(){int num[4]={1768122732,762265697,1919889007,103};printf("%s\n",num);} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message