From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 14:34:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2661216A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:34:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from codegurus.org (cpc2-stoc7-3-0-cust147.midd.cable.ntl.com [81.104.76.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5061943D5E for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:34:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwalker@codegurus.org) Received: from codegurus.org (codegurus.org [192.168.0.1]) by codegurus.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iANEYBDf099717 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:34:11 GMT (envelope-from mwalker@codegurus.org) From: Mick Walker To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:34:11 +0000 Message-Id: <1101220451.94465.13.camel@codegurus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Copyright Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:34:14 -0000 Hi all, Sorry if this post is off topic. Last night me and a few friends decided to go for a few quiet drinks after playing football for a few hours. For this we choose a little pub in the village of Yarm (Close to Middlesbrough in the north east of the UK), the name does escapes me at this time, but I believe it had some reference to a 'Ox' in the title. Now, getting to the point, I was shocked when I went into the toilet facilities in the pub, and found one of those vending machines that sell novelty items of a sexual nature, featuring on the design something that looked remarkably similar to the BSD Daemon. Having my camera cell phone with me, I took a few snaps which are located here: http://codegurus.org/~mwalker/Image045.jpg http://codegurus.org/~mwalker/Image046.jpg http://codegurus.org/~mwalker/Image047.jpg http://codegurus.org/~mwalker/Image049.jpg http://codegurus.org/~mwalker/Image050.jpg The company that supplies these vending machines is called Naughty Vend (http://www.naughtyvend.com/). I have checked their site, and I find no reference to and copyright credits to the original artist. To the best of my knowledge, the BSD Daemon is copyrighted by Marshall Kirk McKusick. Is this a case of copyright theft? As obviously they are a profit making company. Or have i got totally the wrong end of the stick. Mick Walker