Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:29:29 -0600 From: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! Message-ID: <420CC149.1000604@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <86d5v7npya.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <e6575a3050209103214480161@mail.gmail.com> <420A6465.30402@sbcglobal.net> <20050209202922.GA18393@fw.farid-hajji.net> <86d5v7npya.fsf@xps.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Here's a page (a NetBSD logo contest entry) which addresses many of > these concerns, and coincidentally underlines my point about the > daemon not being exclusive to FreeBSD: > > http://homepage.mac.com/codesamurai/netbsd-logo-entry/ That is not bad. But is it sufficiently different from the original Beastie that it is not burdened with being a "derivative worK" in terms of copyright? Understanding that this distinction cannot be really certain except as a consequence of litigation on that point, the underlying question is "Do you really want to go there?". I suppose the solution to the potential ambiguity for this or any other comparable logo would be to get McKusick to sign off on it in some formal way, indicating "that is not Beastie". -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) <gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 266-6348
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