From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 18 8:54:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D033337B424 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f3IFs0t07669; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:54:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:54:00 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , David Johnson , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010418085400.A2824@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010418103127.F27000@lpt.ens.fr> <007301c0c819$d03d74c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <007301c0c819$d03d74c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:11:15AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:11:15AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > It used to be that when a company (like Apple) contributed > code to a UNIX (like BSD) they were allowed to keep their own > copyright on the code and just have it included in the > distribution. After the AT&T lawsuit, BSD doesen't allow this > anymore. If your a company and you want to contribute your > own copyrighted source to FreeBSD, you can only do this via the > ports mechanism. (ie: build a port for your stuff) You can not > get it into the kernel unless you agree to change the copyright > to give BSD perpetual control over it. I think this is misleading. Contributers do generaly maintain their copyright on non-trivial works within the tree (see the Whistle copyright in most any netgraph sources as an example.) FreeBSD generally doesn't require copyright transfer though I believe NetBSD does or at least strongly encourages it. If you want it in the tree, you must generally place it under a BSD compatable license, but the copyright remains yours. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE63biXXY6L6fI4GtQRAurdAJ9s1DPDCSQ+loU9/tJJWgVwbrWo6gCgv8uo 2UmbnovVHqw0fL3J5myWlkw= =SGrO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message