From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 19:36:34 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 5FB7316A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:36:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from engine140.deployzone.net (engine140.deployzone.net [193.17.85.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8911543D46 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:36:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@czv.com) Received: from adsl-212-90-218-5.cybernet.ch [212.90.218.5] by engine140.deployzone.net; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:35:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <420FA01B.6000807@nbritton.org> References: <20050213001621.59515.qmail@web53907.mail.yahoo.com><82d64b378160bb673c1d1611d1bedd56@czv.com> <420FA01B.6000807@nbritton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <02d9fb3bd6d983e230c3568cfaf8948f@czv.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chris Zumbrunn Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:36:31 +0100 To: Nikolas Britton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) 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 19:36:34 -0000 On Feb 13, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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. As far as I know that's a trademark for the word FreeBSD - not a logo trademark. Even a company would usually only go through the trouble of registering a logo trademark if it can't get protection for the word because it is to generic. Beastie itself of course should continue to belong to the entire BSD community. The FreeBSD foundation "only" owns the word FreeBSD - but that's entirely sufficient. /czv