From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 23 19: 9:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4EF137B400 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 76EDF4B65D; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:09:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:09:15 -0800 From: Murray Stokely To: Damien Byrne Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright violation. Message-ID: <20020124030915.GC27267@freebsdmall.com> References: <20020124001532.40258.qmail@web13804.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020124001532.40258.qmail@web13804.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:15:32AM +1100, Damien Byrne wrote: > I was surfing the net doing some research on Christian beliefs, when I stumbled accross an anti > Jehovas Witness site that uses the FreeBSD beastie image on one of it's pages. It's not actually the same beastie by the same artist as the one all over our web site. It is indeed a demon wearing sneakers, holding a trident, and standing in the same pose though. I'm not sure if this was an actual image created to advocate BSD Unix or if the idea/form was simply copied from one. In any case, I don't think we have much to stand on. The daemon image is copyright Kirk McKusick, but hundreds or thousands of different artists have made images of the BSD daemon, and I doubt that very many of those people have ever contacted Kirk. I don't think its worth pursuing, but I certainly won't object if someone has some free time on their hands and a burning desire to have the image removed. I will forward your original message to mckusick@FreeBSD.org. Thanks, - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message