Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:44:43 -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: <420FA01B.6000807@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <82d64b378160bb673c1d1611d1bedd56@czv.com> References: <20050213001621.59515.qmail@web53907.mail.yahoo.com> <82d64b378160bb673c1d1611d1bedd56@czv.com>
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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.
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