From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 22 4:55:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78705155DD; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 04:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA05848; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:55:06 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:55:06 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Kevin Day , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Nik Clayton , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > // 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