Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > what was > historically done with BSD software is when someone wrote a piece of > it they would sign over copyright rights to UCB which would immediately > license the stuff under a license that basically revoked all rights > that a normal copyright owner would have. > > The same thing is done these days with the FreeBSD Project.
No. The FreeBSD Project does not take copyright assignments; in fact, since the FreeBSD Project does not legally exist, it isn't possible for the project to take copyright assignments. Where you see "Copyright ... The FreeBSD Project", you're looking at a collective pseudonym, like "Nicolas Bourbaki". Most copyright laws make provisions for authors to publish their work under a pseudonym without it having any effect on the copyright status of a work providing that the real author is identifiable. (This is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer, etc.) Colin Percival _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
