From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 10 11:54:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABC115D52 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:54:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA04163; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:53:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.8.5/8.6.4) id NAA12222; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:53:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19990910135329.20960@right.PCS> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:53:30 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Brett Glass Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Market share and platform support References: <4.2.0.58.19990909220642.04737670@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990910100024.047a4ce0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990910100024.047a4ce0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Sep 09, 1999 at 10:01:50AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sep 09, 1999 at 10:01:50AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. Yes, but this isn't limited to WC. What happens if I (or my employer) decides to "yank", as you put it, all the vm86 work? Is it even legal to do this? A solution might be to have all work expressly contributed to an entity similar to the "NetBSD Foundation", (see Rod Grimes latest postings somewhere). -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message