From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 07:06:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B59EE16A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:06:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vs3.bgnett.no (vs3.bgnett.no [194.54.96.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A53B43D1F for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:06:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from amidala.datadok.no.bgnett.no ([194.54.107.19]) by vs3.bgnett.no (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1E76C5n081418 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:06:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Sender: peter@amidala.datadok.no To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1408311710.20050213221610@wanadoo.fr> From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: 14 Feb 2005 08:05:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1408311710.20050213221610@wanadoo.fr> Message-ID: <86y8drfwp6.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-bgnett.no-virusscanner: Found to be clean X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:06:18 -0000 Anthony Atkielski writes: > > Because they wrote the software in question, perhaps? > > So? If it's truly open source, the copyrights should be assigned. copyright assignment isn't entirely doable in all jurisdictions, and beside the point. > All it takes is one copyright holder who withdraws a license and an > entire package can become unusable. i assume you have been told about the 'published under a license' phenomenon. To me it sounds like you need to read up on a few things. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"