From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 26 13:55:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6267014FF1 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:55:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA26816; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:55:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA23690; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:55:12 -0700 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:55:12 -0700 Message-Id: <199902262155.OAA23690@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donating Copyrights? In-Reply-To: <9679.920061932@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <9679.920061932@zippy.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid 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. That brings up something that I *just* noticed (18 months late). In /sys/kern/init_main.c (2.2.*), the following copyright appears at boot time. Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc.\n" (In -current/-stable this is in /sys/copyright.h) There are no files in the entire FreeBSD kernel distribution that are assigned to FreeBSD Inc. (which is the company you and David started if I understand things correctly). Why is this copyright there? 'wosch' added it, but I have no idea since he had no right to assign the kernel or any files to this. (Not that I care a whole lot, but it was confusing why it is there....) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message