From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 10 9:13:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C2015825 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:13:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22331; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:11:44 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990910100024.047a4ce0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:01:50 -0600 To: "Daniel O'Connor" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Market share and platform support Cc: chat@freebsd.org, Jonathan Lemon In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.58.19990909220642.04737670@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:01 PM 9/10/99 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 10-Sep-99 Brett Glass wrote: > > It wouldn't have to allow it. All WC would need to do is assert its legal > > right to its employees' work, and it would own code in the tree. And > > could license it however it wanted. > >Except a sizeable amount of code is contributed by other people who aren't >employees. You're right. But because Walnut Creek pays several employees to work full-time on FreeBSD, their contributions are substantial. Yank them -- or even some of them -- and production of an independent distribution becomes difficult or even infeasible. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message