Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:40:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908221335300.54215-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990821224324.00ac9230@nfs.dragondata.com>
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On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, 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. You can trademark the title "The Matrix", but you can't trademark a common word "matrix". That's the only word I use for the name of the module. As Daniel mentioned, they even can't claim that it's their idea. So I think I can pretty safely import it. Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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