From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 17 23:13: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9273E37B401; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:12:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1098) id 54DF381D06; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:12:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:12:56 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Doug Hass , Mike Smith , Leo Bicknell , Jim Bryant , MurrayTaylor , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI Message-ID: <20011018011256.U51024@elvis.mu.org> References: <001801c15798$ec656cc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001801c15798$ec656cc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:51:25PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-FEARSOME-20010909 i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:51:25PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > When we have a choice, we take the BSD code and improve it as necessary. > Otherwise, we take what we can get. Sometimes, even, companies that release > the stuff > closed source end up opening it up when they see that by doing so that lots > more people will contribute bugfixes and such. you say 'we' an awful lot for someone who isn't part of, doesn't represent, and is in no way affiliated with the freebsd project. thankfully, the project's official word can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/policies-encumbered.html -- - bill fumerola / fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org / billf@mu.org - my anger management counselor can beat up your self-affirmation therapist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message