Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:55:58 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Chris Zumbrunn <chris@czv.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The only worthwhile logo-related comments so far.... Message-ID: <420FBEDE.4000608@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <02d9fb3bd6d983e230c3568cfaf8948f@czv.com> References: <20050213001621.59515.qmail@web53907.mail.yahoo.com><82d64b378160bb673c1d1611d1bedd56@czv.com> <420FA01B.6000807@nbritton.org> <02d9fb3bd6d983e230c3568cfaf8948f@czv.com>
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Chris Zumbrunn wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> Chris Zumbrunn wrote: >> >>> While the Beastie mascot isn't exclusive to FreeBSD and instead is >>> used as a mascot for BSD unixes in general, a new FreeBSD Beastie >>> logo is subject to the additional copyright of its designer and can >>> as such be exclusive to the FreeBSD project. In combination with the >>> word FreeBSD and with the approval of the copyright holders, it >>> could indeed even be registered as a trademark. But FreeBSD is not a >>> company, and for its marketing purposes it doesn't require the >>> protection of a trademark. So, replacing Beastie as the FreeBSD logo >>> is NOT necessary. >> >> >> The FreeBSD Foundation was setup was for thing such as this, >> currently the 'FreeBSD' trademark is under the control of the >> foundation. Also I feel that the designer of this new logo should >> transfer copyright holder status to FreeBSD or the Foundation. > > > As far as I know that's a trademark for the word FreeBSD - not a logo > trademark. Even a company would usually only go through the trouble of > registering a logo trademark if it can't get protection for the word > because it is to generic. Beastie itself of course should continue to > belong to the entire BSD community. The FreeBSD foundation "only" owns > the word FreeBSD - but that's entirely sufficient. > > /czv > I think It can be both... when the symbols F, r, e, B, S, and D are combined together to form "FreeBSD" is what's trademarked and the medium is Irrelavant as long as you can see it.
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