From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 1:19:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9400D37B405 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 01:19:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C88FBD1E; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 01:19:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA32494; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 01:19:30 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2C9Mej09257; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 01:22:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Jeff MacDonald Cc: Mark Rowlands , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Support Contracts. References: <20020311140810.Q310-100000@bart.bignose.ca> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 12 Mar 2002 01:22:40 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020311140810.Q310-100000@bart.bignose.ca> Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeff MacDonald writes: > I'm not sure what copyright laws a "contract" falls under. The same copyright laws as an article or book. > None of the ones i fould had any copyrights. There's a real high probability that they ALL had copyrights and I'm guessing they're usually owned by lawyers, not contractors. I can't explain why more don't contain copyright notices. I know at least one contract owner who cares enough to claim his copyrights in writing. See the GPL. (It's not even copyleft.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message