From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:23:56 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 2D5D216A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:23:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCDCA43D45 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:23:55 +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 1CzjCd-000Egl-DA for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:23:55 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <1065300005.20050211231617@wanadoo.fr> References: <649200329.20050211081852@wanadoo.fr> <621dabed4fc2996ae4cb3a2929d6842c@chrononomicon.com> <420D24EE.40606@tvog.net> <805E7F3C-7C77-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> <1065300005.20050211231617@wanadoo.fr> Message-Id: <9DBF40B4-7C7B-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:23:55 -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 22:23:56 -0000 On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > 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? > Sorry, but the employers are freely offering the code and assigning copyrights as necessary. Chad