From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 15:43:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AE316A41F for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 15:43:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE2043D70 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 15:43:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1DvGjE-000BEF-0U; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:43:24 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200507201111.42450.bob89@eng.ufl.edu> References: <200507201111.42450.bob89@eng.ufl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:43:23 -0600 To: Bob Johnson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: freebsd-questions Question Subject: Re: Demon license? (copyright myths) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 15:43:26 -0000 On Jul 20, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Bob Johnson wrote: > IANAL either, but in general, a copyright holder has the right to > control > derivative works as well. You can't publish pictures of Mickey > Mouse without > permission of Disney, even if you drew the pictures yourself, and you > (probably) can't publish images of Beastie without Kirk McKusick's > permission. The fact that he is lenient in enforcing his rights > does not > mean that he doesn't have them. > > If someone manages to come up with a daemon image that is obviously > NOT > Beastie, then they won't have to worry about McKusick's copyright, > but since > he is so lenient in granting usage, why bother? > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html > > - Bob This would be true if he had invented or come up with Beastie first. Is that how it happened? I was under the impression that he just came up with the most loved form but that previously somewhat similar images had been used for unix/bsd etc. He still has the right to derivatives of his beastie but I would suspect that not-so-similar versions would be OK. But again, IANAL and am not familiar with whole history --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net