Gnome Splashes Remakes

[Fernan Aguero]

+----[ Bogdan Agica <bagica at bitdefender.com> (20.Sep.2005 07:24):
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| However, I didn't quite understand the copyright issues involved with
| beastie. The FreeBSD Gnome 2.12 Splash Screen will not feature Beastie ?
| 
| Keep up the good work, 
| -- 
| Kramer
|
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i) I believe that beastie is free to use, you only have to
akcnowledge the author. But, for a splash screen, this means
that you should add the acknowledgement on the image, which
always results in some clutter. I personally don't like the
results very much (or you have to put so small a copyright
legend that it is almost impossible to read).

ii) beastie may (or may not) be replaced in the near future.
There was a logo contest (submission now closed, we are all
waiting for the results) to come up with a new FreeBSD logo.
Reasons for the change were made clear on the announcement
of the contest: http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/ 

So FreeBSD may in the future have a new beastie, or some
stylized representation of it, or a new logo without
beastie ... I'm anxious to see the results!

Fernan