From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 14:30:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608A216A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:30:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF3C43D39 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:30:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1BEU2tB021713; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:30:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <420CC149.1000604@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:29:29 -0600 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <420A6465.30402@sbcglobal.net> <20050209202922.GA18393@fw.farid-hajji.net> <86d5v7npya.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <86d5v7npya.fsf@xps.des.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:30:07 -0000 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Here's a page (a NetBSD logo contest entry) which addresses many of > these concerns, and coincidentally underlines my point about the > daemon not being exclusive to FreeBSD: > > http://homepage.mac.com/codesamurai/netbsd-logo-entry/ That is not bad. But is it sufficiently different from the original Beastie that it is not burdened with being a "derivative worK" in terms of copyright? Understanding that this distinction cannot be really certain except as a consequence of litigation on that point, the underlying question is "Do you really want to go there?". I suppose the solution to the potential ambiguity for this or any other comparable logo would be to get McKusick to sign off on it in some formal way, indicating "that is not Beastie". -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348