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Joshua Tinnin writes:

> I don't think you understand the history of FreeBSD. Many people who
> work at Yahoo! are committers, and their employer not only knows about
> this but encourages it.

That's not good enough.  The employer has to assign its copyrights as
well, or waive the usual work-for-hire arrangement that is implicit for
employees writing code within the scope of their work.

> To what end?

I'd hate to see FreeBSD become unavailable because of copyright issues.
A lot of organizations are buried by this type of litigation.  And
frankly, the cavalier attitude about such serious questions that I
sometimes see displayed does not reassure me.

-- 
Anthony