On Saturday 12 February 2005 02:07 am, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/co > >ntrib- 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.
I think it's great that you're volunteering to do this. Keep us updated on your status! - jt _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
