From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 26 12:46: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A0E1500B for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:46:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA09683; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:45:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Licia Cc: Terry Lambert , mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donating Copyrights? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:54:28 CST." Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:45:32 -0800 Message-ID: <9679.920061932@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > (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? None whatsoever, we're only interested in being able to redistribute the bits freely. Who actually holds the copyright on them has only proven itself to be of theoretical rather than practical relevance to us in the last 5 years, and the issue is one which people generally just get emotional about when anyone's foolish enough to raise it as a point of theoretical relevance in any case. It's really just not worth thinking about. I've never tried granting the copyright to some deceased composer I respect, or perhaps a cartoon character, but both would be interesting possibilities for those looking for alternatives in copyright assignment. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message