Date: 14 Feb 2005 08:05:25 +0100 From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) 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!!! Message-ID: <86y8drfwp6.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> In-Reply-To: <1408311710.20050213221610@wanadoo.fr> References: <1408311710.20050213221610@wanadoo.fr>
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Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> 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"
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