Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

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