RE: Demon license?

2005-07-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil >Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:26 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Demon license? > > >"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

RE: Demon license?

2005-07-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Josh Ockert >Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:36 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Demon license? > > >No. I have no objection to your po

RE: Demon license?

2005-07-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bart >Silverstrim >Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:45 AM >To: Josh Ockert >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt >Subject: Re: Demon license? > I >would think th

Re: Demon license? (copyright myths)

2005-07-20 Thread D. Goss
Unless of course you made it clear that the resemblance was intentional and your use of the copyrighted image was as part of legitimate social commentary (e.g. satire, or critique). You'd get in trouble if you tried to pass it off as an independent work. Thus the infamous "Beastie F'ing Tux

Re: Demon license? (copyright myths)

2005-07-20 Thread Greg Barniskis
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 20, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Josh Ockert wrote: No I disagree. I'm fairly certain that an independently drawn personified mouse would not be copyright infringement. Calling it "Mickey Mouse" may very well be trademark infringement, however. As long

Re: Demon license? (copyright myths)

2005-07-20 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 20, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Josh Ockert wrote: No I disagree. I'm fairly certain that an independently drawn personified mouse would not be copyright infringement. Calling it "Mickey Mouse" may very well be trademark infringement, however. As long as the "independently drawn personif

Re: Demon license? (copyright myths)

2005-07-20 Thread Josh Ockert
On 7/20/05, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Bob Johnson wrote: > > > IANAL either, but in general, a copyright holder has the right to > > control > > derivative works as well. You can't publish pictures of Mickey > > Mouse without > > perm

Re: Spam:****, RE: Demon license?

2005-07-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 20, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 20, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: As I understand it Apple is using some of the code from FreeBSD, but FreeBSD isn't necessarily *getting* anything as an obligation from them. Ideally, if businesses give

Re: Demon license? (copyright myths)

2005-07-20 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 20, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Bob Johnson wrote: IANAL either, but in general, a copyright holder has the right to control derivative works as well. You can't publish pictures of Mickey Mouse without permission of Disney, even if you drew the pictures yourself, and you (probably) can't publ

Re: Spam:****, RE: Demon license?

2005-07-20 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 20, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: As I understand it Apple is using some of the code from FreeBSD, but FreeBSD isn't necessarily *getting* anything as an obligation from them. Ideally, if businesses give to them, that's a bonus. Businesses have always been able to t

Re: Demon license? (copyright myths)

2005-07-20 Thread Bob Johnson
Josh Ockert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 1:53 : [...] > > As to the subject of copyright infringement, allowing other > Beastie-like images to be associated with FreeBSD is not copyright > infringement. Gentoo's penguin is not copyright infringement. Stylized > logos that are

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-20 Thread Fabian Keil
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil > >Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:26 AM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subj

Re: Spam:****, RE: Demon license?

2005-07-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 20, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bart Silverstrim Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:45 AM To: Josh Ockert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: Demon license

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 19 July 2005 at 3:54:06 -0600, Ray Jenson wrote: > It was not my intention to start a flame war, folks. I'm sorry. I didn't > realize what a hot topic this little daemon is, and I really didn't mean to > step on anyone's feel-bads or press anyone's hot-buttons. > > I've taken the tongu

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 19, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Josh Ockert wrote: On 7/19/05, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 19, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Josh Ockert wrote: Go ahead. Blocking it just shows that you are totally unwilling to consider any position different than your own. I am at least willing

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Josh Ockert
On 7/19/05, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 19, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Josh Ockert wrote: > > >> Go ahead. Blocking it just shows that you are totally unwilling to > >> consider any position different than your own. I am at least > >> willing to continue to discuss it. > > >

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jul 19, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Josh Ockert wrote: Go ahead. Blocking it just shows that you are totally unwilling to consider any position different than your own. I am at least willing to continue to discuss it. No. I have no objection to your position. I have an objection to your complete

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Josh Ockert
> Go ahead. Blocking it just shows that you are totally unwilling to > consider any position different than your own. I am at least > willing to continue to discuss it. No. I have no objection to your position. I have an objection to your complete lack of disrespect. You are a troll. You go on a

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Fabian Keil
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Lehey said: > > "I'm sure we would object if someone drew a 'devil' image and > associated it with FreeBSD." > > Re-read this please. "DEVIL" image? What is that? Devil in > this context is a religious term. So what Greg is really saying >

RE: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: Josh Ockert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 10:54 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey; Ray Jenson; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Demon license? > > >

RE: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 3:28 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Ray Jenson; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Demon license? > > >On Monday

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 18 July 2005 at 2:23:45 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On Monday, July 18, 2005 1:53 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 18 July 2005 at 1:12:12 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) >>> On Sunday, July 17, 2005 4:1

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Josh Ockert
This is somewhat off-topic, but I'd like to point out that I'm not the one raising the issue. There have been numerous attempts on -questions to paint the advocates of a new logo as anti-Beastie. Specifically, Ted, you claim that "The agitators in the FreeBSD project that want to jettison it are f

RE: Demon license?

2005-07-19 Thread Ray Jenson
It was not my intention to start a flame war, folks. I'm sorry. I didn't realize what a hot topic this little daemon is, and I really didn't mean to step on anyone's feel-bads or press anyone's hot-buttons. I've taken the tongue-in-cheek comments as just that: tongue-in-cheek. I'm not a "member" o

RE: Demon license?

2005-07-18 Thread Brian Tao
PROTECTED]> Cc: Ray Jenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Demon license? >-Original Message- >From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 3:28 PM >To: Ted Mi

RE: Demon license?

2005-07-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 1:53 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Ray Jenson; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Demon license? > > >[Format recovered-

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Incorrect text wrapping On Monday, 18 July 2005 at 1:12:12 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) > On Sunday, July 17, 2005 4:14 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: No I didn

RE: Demon license?

2005-07-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg 'groggy' >Lehey >Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 4:14 PM >To: Ray Jenson >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Demon license? > > >

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-18 Thread Brian Tao
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Ray Jenson wrote: > > Here's where Brian Tao comes in: we'd like permission to use the > demon on our web site when directly linked to BSD, as well as a > composite graphic (sample is attached) that would show the devil > alongside other logos, such as Tux, the Red Hat logo, an

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-17 Thread Lane
On Sunday 17 July 2005 17:54, Ray Jenson wrote: > Greetings! > > My name is Ray Jenson, and I'm the CEO of a new start-up company in Utah, > called Red Heron Corporation. Our company has recently decided that we'd > like to start shipping CD's as a service to our customers. We would > prominently d

Re: Demon license?

2005-07-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 17 July 2005 at 16:54:30 -0600, Ray Jenson wrote: > Greetings! > > My name is Ray Jenson, and I'm the CEO of a new start-up company in Utah, > called Red Heron Corporation. Our company has recently decided that we'd > like to start shipping CD's as a service to our customers. We would >

Demon license?

2005-07-17 Thread Ray Jenson
Greetings! My name is Ray Jenson, and I'm the CEO of a new start-up company in Utah, called Red Heron Corporation. Our company has recently decided that we'd like to start shipping CD's as a service to our customers. We would prominently display a link to the FreeBSD web site, as well as notifying