From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:23:04 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 323DC16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:23:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02DB743D2D for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:23:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.43) id 1CzjBn-000Egl-Lu for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:23:03 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <566767782.20050211231303@wanadoo.fr> References: <649200329.20050211081852@wanadoo.fr> <621dabed4fc2996ae4cb3a2929d6842c@chrononomicon.com> <420D24EE.40606@tvog.net> <566767782.20050211231303@wanadoo.fr> Message-Id: <7E82FCE7-7C7B-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:23:02 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on hobbiton.shire.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,PLING_PLING autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1+cvs (built Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:44:05 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hobbiton.shire.net) 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:23:04 -0000 On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Frank Laszlo writes: > >> I wouldnt say many, there are few commiters who are actually paid to >> work on it, most commiters/developers do it as a hobby. > > What written agreements do these committers have with their employers? > > Normally, if you are paid to write something by your employer, your > employer owns the copyright in what you write. So unless these > committers have specific agreements with their employers to the > contrary, they are adding code to FreeBSD that is encumbered by > copyrights owned by their employer, and can no longer be freely > distributed. NO. Their employers are paying them TO WORK on FreeBSD. They are not taking their code that they write for their employers and also sticking it in FreeBSD. Big difference. In the first case, they are allowing it to happen and assign the copyrights as necessary. Chad