Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:09:15 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: Damien Byrne <dbyrne_it@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright violation. Message-ID: <20020124030915.GC27267@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <20020124001532.40258.qmail@web13804.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020124001532.40258.qmail@web13804.mail.yahoo.com>
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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
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