Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as
NetBSD!!!
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Fri Feb 11 14:23:56 PST 2005
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
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