Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 10:47:59 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "Paul Robinson" <p.robinson@mmu.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Swag... new choices? Message-ID: <3F7D53DF.11218.48A31DDD@localhost> In-Reply-To: <002c01c389bb$3e632340$6c01a8c0@MITERDOMAIN> References: <20030928152441.S83167-100000@users.757.org>
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On 3 Oct 2003 at 15:32, Paul Robinson wrote: > When > was the last time you saw Beastie in 2D in any position other than > standing facing to our left? I'm shocked that you've not noticed the right facing Beastie that appears as a favicon at several websites. ;) http://www.freebsddiary.org/ http://www.freshports.org/ http:www.freshsource.org/ http://www.bsdcan.org/ http://www.daemonnews.org/ http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > The real problem though is free use of the logo/mascot. To really open > up the market like OpenBSD has, you kind of have to consider... dare I > say it?... changing the mascot. If you want to produce lots of mass > produced stuff with loads of artwork and sell them, you can't use > beastie unless you've cleared every item with McKusick: > > http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html > > That's fine, and I understand his reasoning. It just works against what > you're suggesting unfortunately. My experience with obtaining permission has been positive. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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