From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 4 11:16:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A640037BAC4 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 13Km1I-0000A7-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:16:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:16:31 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-PC Laughs Message-ID: <20000804141631.A28513@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20000804114719.A25218@pir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from behanna@zbzoom.net on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:50:15PM -0400 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris BeHanna probably said: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > On another front, it also breaks the copyright agreement Kirk McK. has > > on the image of the beastie. Not a good idea. > > Well, no, it doesn't. Parody is protected speech. That doesn't look like parody to me, it looks like the abuse of a copyrighted image. It's not parodying the beastie, it's using it in a given situation. Kirk specificly lists this type of abuse in his copyright page; http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html > Whether or not it tickles your funnybone is another (personal) > matter. and an irrelevant one. Oh, and please fix your mail program so it either uses the To: or the reply-to: and not both. Your reply to me went to the list twice. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message