From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 18:22:01 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 1CB6916A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:22:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA22F43D5E for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:22:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:25:21 -0600 Message-ID: <41A37FD3.9070105@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:22:11 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Norgaard References: <1101220451.94465.13.camel@codegurus.org> <41A34E1F.3000005@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <41A34E1F.3000005@locolomo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Nov 2004 18:25:21.0945 (UTC) FILETIME=[CAFBF090:01C4D189] cc: Mick Walker 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 18:22:01 -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. > Gee, in the U.S. I've never seen such a machine that wasn't painted the same color as the wall. Maybe I go to the wrong establishments .... Erik Norgaard wrote: > You should contact Kirk McKusick mckusick[ at ]mckusick.com about it > since he is the copyright holder. > > Regards, Erik Not only that, you should probably hack into it and make sure that COPYRIGHT still appears in the / dir ... maybe the Regents need to get involved as well. Or do you suppose there's no software running on that box? 8-D On a more somber note, I concur that it seems pretty blatant. Kevin Kinsey