From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 19:58:14 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 DE9871065692 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:58:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7B48FC19 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:58:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A7B47.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.123.71]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o19Jw5Pi006627; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:58:06 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o19Jw2UJ013114; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:58:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o19JvlcV028882; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:57:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201002091957.o19JvlcV028882@fire.js.berklix.net> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:27:16 +0100." <86eikuk317.fsf@ds4.des.no> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:57:47 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mail25@bzerk.org 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 List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:58:15 -0000 Hi, Reference: > From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= > Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:27:16 +0100 > Message-id: <86eikuk317.fsf@ds4.des.no> =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" writes: > > I asked someone who registers trademarks as part of her job: > > One can apply to register a trademark in {(my (Julian) brackets) at > > least all of} Germany Britain America {etc}. She spoke of > > an international form where one ticks the countries one > > wants {to apply to}. > > > > I recall there's initial & recuring fees (& admin) on getting & > > renewing trademarks. So questions could be: > > Has Kirk (or A.N.Other) registered it [which, what] as a > > trademark ? In which countries ? When ? URLs please. > > Have they already/ when will they expire > > Whose crontab file reminder who Kirk ? to pay renewal > > fees [to which countries] ? > > There is no need to register a trademark. Kirk owns the *copyright* to > the image, which is valid world-wide at no cost. As the copyright > holder, Kirk gets to decide who is and isn't allowed to use the image > and for what purpose. > > I'm tempted to say that those researchers' use of the daemon is a > shocking display of lack of respect for intellectual property, if I > didn't already know far too well that most scientists are not only > completely clueless about IP but do not even understand it when you > explain it to them. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text not quoted-printable, HTML or Base64 http://www.asciiribbon.org