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Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as
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On Friday 11 February 2005 02:13 pm, Anthony Atkielski 
<atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> 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.

Do you have any proof of malfeasence? Are you planning on suing someone, 
or is this meant to be useful in some way?

- jt