From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 21 23: 9:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D1114C15; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 23:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id PAA27675; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 15:09:02 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37BF93C7.D6640EBC@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 15:08:07 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Day Cc: Andrzej Bialecki , Nik Clayton , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2 References: <4.2.0.58.19990821224324.00ac9230@nfs.dragondata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Day wrote: > > A> Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so > > > much you could vote for putting it in the tree... > > > >What do you mean "vote"? I was waiting for it to show up on my tree > >after a cvsup! > > I hate to keep bringing things like this up, or start a legal war, but this > screensaver is more than likely a copyright and/or trademark violation, and > bringing it into the source tree may not be a good idea. Yes, lots of > people may be making things like this, but it would probably be best to > distance FreeBSD itself from such a thing. MMmm... not sure... First, it is not an exact copy. Second, it has no mention of trademarked names. Third, The Matrix took it's idea from Ghost in the Shell in first place. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org - Come on. - Where are we going? - To get what you came for. - What's that? - Me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message