Your FreeBSD daemon logo

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Graphic images of the FreeBSD mascot, referred to as "the BSD daemon"
in most literature on the subject, are copyright by the artists
that draw them.  You must get permission from those artists.  For
example, Marshall Kirk McKusick drew these here and if you use any
of them you must get his permission:

http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/images.html

The BSD daemon in the logo on the website, here:

http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/freebsd_1.gif

Is a mirror of this image:

http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/gif/bsd4_3.gif

and permission should be got from Marshall for use of it.  This image
is probably the most popular of all the images of the BSD daemon.  In
general Marshall gives permission for use of this image to just
about anyone that asks to use it in FreeBSD-related items.

You also have the option of drawing your own BSD daemon, or
contracting someone to draw it.  For example my book cover here:

http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com/bookcover.png

uses a BSD image that was drawn by an artist within Addison-Wesley,
thus is copyright by Addison-Wesley, not by Marshall.  For
another example, Darby Daemon, here:

http://www.daemonnews.org/199912/darby.html

is copyrighted by Susannah Coleman.  As you can probably see there's
wide variation in the images people have drawn.


Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of
> vhoff at pan-data.org
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 2:30 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Your FreeBSD daemon logo
> 
> 
> Dear FreeBSD team,
> 
> we've a question regarding the usage of your FreeBSD daemon logo 
> on our webpage. On 
> 
> http://pan-data.dyndns.org/ccount
> 
> we provide a free software for market research data analysis for 
> Win, Linux and SunOS. Now, as of several requests from FreeBSD 
> users, our intention is to compile and provide a FreeBDS version. 
> On the upper right corner of our page, you can find a download 
> option with appropriate gif pictures for the different operating 
> systems. Here we would apprechiate to have your explicitly 
> allowance to use a copy of your daemon gif logo. Please let me 
> know if it's possible or, for any legal restrictions, is there is 
> an alternate option?
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> Volker Hoffmann,
> CCOUNT development team
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