On November 8, 2018 7:48:02 PM UTC, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 03:52:06PM +0800, Alex wrote: >> Dear OpenBSD users, developers, contributors, My name is Mingjing a >*BSD user and lover from China. My friend and I did some wallpapers for >OpenBSD and other opensource project in the free time. For now they are >designed only for smart phones. The pictures are 1920*1080. I put them >on Github (https://github.com/opensourcecn/wallpapers) and we've >packaged them into android APKs on Google Play >( http://bit.ly/2JPetLy and http://bit.ly/2qxX8xU). All the wallpapers >released in BSD license that you can do what ever you want. Feel free >to use them and give me suggestions if you have. Thanks Mingjing > >So, you're taking OpenBSD art without permission and publishing it as a >"free app" with ads. Why the app needs so many permissions?. > >You're not even a *BSD user. The description contains this gem: "The >copyright of the openBSD project belongs to: The Regents of the >University of California © and we promise this application abide by the >CC4.0 agreements." > >Since September you've only published 50+ wallpaper and crappy >launchers.
I am a long time user of OpenBSD and sometime tinkerer with the code. The art appeared to have been made available at one time for anyone to use to represent the OpenBSD project in a positive light. I am saddened and disappointed at the vague, but highly aggressive, recent intellectual property claims being made, and the growing association of the project with a certain street drug culture including "benzedrine.ch" "undeadly.org" and other sites. If the BSD-licensed codebase is worthwhile, (as compared to NetBSD or FreeBSD, say,) it is time to fork the project or think about merging it back into NetBSD where it came from, or otherwise take a more holistic approach to a fully BSD-licensed distribution with a general focus on security. I have no idea where Theo DeRaadt stands on the issue, because I am not that personally involved. -- https://www.colmena.biz/~justina/contacto.php
