From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 8 12:20:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D398106566B for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:20:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADE88FC0A for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o18CKXLk035626; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:20:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o18CKXfL035625; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:20:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:20:33 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <201002081220.o18CKXfL035625@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mail25@bzerk.org In-Reply-To: <20100206172356.GA36538@ei.bzerk.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:20:49 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: our little daemon abused as symbol of the evil X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mail25@bzerk.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:20:53 -0000 Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 08:05:10PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey typed: > > PS an undefended trade mark loses its right to further defence or some such, > > (I'm not a lawyer). > > It's not a trade mark, is it? It's copyrighted. That's a whole other set of laws. On the bottom of this page ... http://www.freebsd.org/art.html .. the text states that Marshall Kirk McKusick is the trademark holder for the BSD Daemon image. However, on another page (I don't have the URL right now) it says that Kirk owns the copyright of the daemon. I guess one of the web pages needs to be corrected, but I don't know which one. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do." -- Dennis M. Ritchie