From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:16:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2310F16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:16:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71BC43D1F for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:16:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1108.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 0B4CE1C0008E for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:16:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1108.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id DD9E51C00087 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:16:17 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050211221617907.DD9E51C00087@mwinf1108.wanadoo.fr Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:16:17 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1065300005.20050211231617@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <805E7F3C-7C77-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> References: <649200329.20050211081852@wanadoo.fr> <621dabed4fc2996ae4cb3a2929d6842c@chrononomicon.com> <420D24EE.40606@tvog.net> <805E7F3C-7C77-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:16:19 -0000 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > many in no way means a majority. many is more than a few, where a few > is a handful (3-5 or so). There are probably more than a handful who > do it as more than a hobby. A lot of good people do it on their own > time as well, and I salute that. But a lot of people like Yahoo and > others (Apple probably) submit stuff that ends up in FreeBSD and they > pay their people to do so. Lots of features, like jails as I > understand it, started off by someone getting paid to implement stuff. I hope people are not being as careless as you imply. Being paid to write code as an employee means relinguishing copyright in the code to one's employer. If people are actually doing this for FreeBSD, then some of the code in FreeBSD is owned by their employers, which can become a legal nightmare and stop the project dead in its tracks overnight. Aren't there any _lawyers_ working on this project? -- Anthony