From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 18:45:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9629616A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:45:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A0B43D41 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:45:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20050213184447i9100k56hve>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:45:02 +0000 Message-ID: <420FA01B.6000807@nbritton.org> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:44:43 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050202) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Zumbrunn References: <20050213001621.59515.qmail@web53907.mail.yahoo.com> <82d64b378160bb673c1d1611d1bedd56@czv.com> In-Reply-To: <82d64b378160bb673c1d1611d1bedd56@czv.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The only worthwhile logo-related comments so far.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:45:03 -0000 Chris Zumbrunn wrote: > While the Beastie mascot isn't exclusive to FreeBSD and instead is > used as a mascot for BSD unixes in general, a new FreeBSD Beastie logo > is subject to the additional copyright of its designer and can as such > be exclusive to the FreeBSD project. In combination with the word > FreeBSD and with the approval of the copyright holders, it could > indeed even be registered as a trademark. But FreeBSD is not a > company, and for its marketing purposes it doesn't require the > protection of a trademark. So, replacing Beastie as the FreeBSD logo > is NOT necessary. The FreeBSD Foundation was setup was for thing such as this, currently the 'FreeBSD' trademark is under the control of the foundation. Also I feel that the designer of this new logo should transfer copyright holder status to FreeBSD or the Foundation.