From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 23 23:43:31 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A20D98 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:43:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A61C4A53 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:43:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD96E661E; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:49:44 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=S7yww3sOrNTO rb1BI930VeJHBLU=; b=NslTZOcGzmx9u1in5nmAKiIpPt/lQ9SeTNRIlP0JNUUK r65xYFPsX0rssPIHHl2MGOjaUUxMWXU7s2lIL7s1RaNPRZtYOQABHgUJLBDjoOG/ eHogLDZXxficVuldzdiYnJR/wdWRvUlQtorrc5fGoUsXHWnUFK0BgQQl5Mqxp7Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=spPn1r M2njuWiTVZ4oGNFySSjuZ67E8fiKUL5AFaU9EiII8FFwJXNxYap/FKE3jsRWPEwD SbSPx1YXV2tjYp1Q9wZ4ql0nR4xB28B6fk1yvD2W08t4KeH8PYV72iaLetg3PRaC xjuK8wumW/3a7NHPOQ7vHtCkxii9/SR6Kn298= Received: from Bruces-MacBook-Pro.local (unknown [IPv6:2a01:348:301:2:19c6:30db:dcc7:226d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 19253E65FF; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:49:44 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <51295417.1070102@cran.org.uk> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:43:19 +0000 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130216 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Isom Subject: Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg? References: <20130223171150.eeb88206.freebsd@edvax.de> <20130223183234.cf559a552f31f9b19cf67bd6@sohara.org> <5129140B.6050106@gmail.com> <512935B7.7070008@gmail.com> <51293B1E.8010103@gmail.com> <20130223222337.f68865d83a3051c429b81dd1@sohara.org> <51294E12.3040906@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51294E12.3040906@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:43:31 -0000 On 23/02/2013 23:17, Joshua Isom wrote: > That also ties in with NIH syndrome. Gnu does that a lot just to make > sure they can change to GPLv4 without problems, while Linux is still > GPLv2. It's also not just Berkeley, but other people and > organizations hold copyrights. From a quick glance, netatalk is by > the University of Michigan. Mounting a cd using cd9660, which is > still listed as Berkeley, is probably so tested and proven by now, > that there would be no benefit to rewriting it other than to change > the copyright. Other open source projects require contributors to sign copyright assignment agreements so all the code is under a single owner. -- Bruce Cran