From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 26 11:55: 6 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 5173914FEA for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:54:57 -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 NAA23954; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:54:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:54:28 -0600 (CST) From: Licia To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Terry Lambert , mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donating Copyrights? In-Reply-To: <9279.920058328@zippy.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 Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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? > > The procedure is really simple - just stick a copyright something like > this on it: > > * Copyright (c) 1995 > * Joe Blow. All rights reserved. > * > * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions > * are met: > * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer, > * verbatim and that no modifications are made prior to this > * point in the file. > * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > * > * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY JOE BLOW ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS > * OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED > * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE > * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL JOE BLOW OR HIS HOUSEPLANTS BE LIABLE > * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL > * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS > * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, LIFE OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) > * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT > * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY > * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF > * SUCH DAMAGE. > > And you're done. That's literally all there is to it. You don't need > to "assign the copyright away", you just need to use open licensing > terms like the above for us to be entirely happy with it. > > - Jordan > (smile) I already understood the licensing part, I was just wondering specifically about the copyright thing :) So the FreeBSD project has no interest in having copyrights donated directly to it? [ 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