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

Anthony Atkielski atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr
Sat Feb 12 02:07:53 PST 2005


Ted Mittelstaedt writes:

> The committers do know about this and are careful about it.  You will
> note that this is discussed more fully here:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/contrib-
> how.html
>
> under the section:
>
> New Code or Major Value-Added Packages
>
> I am very surprised that you missed this.  Could it be made any more
> obvious?

Yes, it could be made about a thousand times more obvious.  It should be
right on the first page of the site, not buried in the documentation.

And it is still a bit worrisome, because it says "When working with
large amounts of code, the touchy subject of copyrights also invariably
comes up."  Unfortunately, copyright applies to small amounts of code,
too, not just large amounts.  Even a few lines can lead to litigation if
the copyright status of those lines is not verified and cleared before
they are incorporated into the product.

-- 
Anthony




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