Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:55:06 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>, "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.3.96.990822144636.5453A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908221335300.54215-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > > > > 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. > If we wanted to be legally paranoid we would call it the "letter" saver and add as the comment the words "Falling letters like in the movie with red bills" > 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/ ---- Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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