Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:54:34 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don'tchange Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!! Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEGFFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <163678746.20050212124602@wanadoo.fr>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 3:46 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please > don'tchange Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!! > > > > It surprises and worries me that anyone does it, for precisely the > reasons that you describe. Should I ever contribute code to FreeBSD, > I'll just assign the copyright, or release the code to the public > domain. I have to wonder about the motivations of someone who says he > wants to contribute to a Great Cause but then insists on retaining his > copyright. > I'm sure in those instances that there's nothing wrong, but I am concerned that there doesen't seem to be effort to disclosing the copyrights in a central and obvious location. (and no, buried in a readme file that is written to the root of the installed filesystem isn't where I'm talking about. We don't want to put up any speed bumps to a company that wants to use the code in a product. I did know about the networking code, I've seen those other copyrights before. But I didn't know that it had got further than that. > Remember that in some jurisdictions, copyright reverts to the author > after a certain number of years, no matter what he says to the > contrary. > This includes the U.S.; see 17 USC 203. > Whic could probably be got around easily by having the FreeBSD foundation pay him a dollar for software development, in which case he can simply say the entire project is a work for hire. Ted
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