From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 14:50:22 2004 Return-Path: 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 A531816A4CF for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:50:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from charm.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5AD43D2D for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:50:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by charm.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B77C171A9; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:50:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41A34E1F.3000005@locolomo.org> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:50:07 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041114 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mick Walker References: <1101220451.94465.13.camel@codegurus.org> In-Reply-To: <1101220451.94465.13.camel@codegurus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Copyright Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:50:22 -0000 Mick Walker wrote: > Now, getting to the point, I was shocked when I went into the toilet > facilities in the pub, and found one of those vending machines that sell > novelty items of a sexual nature, featuring on the design something that > looked remarkably similar to the BSD Daemon. To the best > of my knowledge, the BSD Daemon is copyrighted by Marshall Kirk > McKusick. > Is this a case of copyright theft? As obviously they are a profit making > company. Or have i got totally the wrong end of the stick. You should contact Kirk McKusick mckusick[ at ]mckusick.com about it since he is the copyright holder. Regards, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2