From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 07:46:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B136516A4B3 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 07:46:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B10843F85 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 07:46:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5FC3D28; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:46:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: "Paul Robinson" Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 10:47:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3F7D53DF.11218.48A31DDD@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <002c01c389bb$3e632340$6c01a8c0@MITERDOMAIN> References: <20030928152441.S83167-100000@users.757.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Swag... new choices? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 14:46:45 -0000 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/