From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 26 7:32:34 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 79CFC14F15 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 07:32:30 -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 JAA22677; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:32:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:32:08 -0600 (CST) From: Licia To: Terry Lambert Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donating Copyrights? In-Reply-To: <199902260646.XAA21837@usr05.primenet.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 Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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 :) > > It's also a bit hard to make someone hold you harmless, as the author > of the work, from damages resulting from its use, unless it's a > condition of the license. > > Also, copyrights have to be held by humans, and assigned to legal > entities, just like patents. The length of a copyright is 50 years > following the death of the author. > I suppose I need to clarify more. (making a note to myself to be more complete in the future.) I was specifically asking if there is a formal or traditional procedure to be followed by individuals wishing to donate the copyright of an original work to the FreeBSD Project. I'm not asking about copyright law, but about procedures regarding donating them specifically to the FreeBSD project. As an example, if I develop an application, kernel module, bit of documentation, advocacy flyer, etc and want to donate the copyright to that material to the FreeBSD Project, does FreeBSD have an established process for handling this? [ 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