Demon license?

[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
> prominently display a link to the FreeBSD web site, as well as notifying our
> clients of the ability to download the software free.
>
> 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) 

It doesn't seem to have made it.

> that would show the devil

Devil?  Devil?  That's a daemon!

> alongside other logos, such as Tux, the Red Hat logo, and
> Microsoft's Windows logo. We're in the process of testing our
> hardware configurations before offering BSD-powered machines to our
> clients, which should knock a significant amount off the
> price. These logos are not currently displayed, but I can send you a
> mock-up if you need it.

The daemon is copyright of Kirk McKusick <mckusick at mckusick.com>.  You
should ask him for permission.  In general he gives it if the usage is
BSD-related, as it appears to be in this case.

> Also, I am wondering whom I contact with regard to getting
> authorization to actually ship the software. We wouldn't necessarily
> want ad space anywhere, until we're sure that we can provide timely
> shipments (our processes are still being developed).

The FreeBSD license states the conditions for distribution.  It's in
the file /COPYRIGHT on any installed FreeBSD system.  It's relatively
long, so I won't include it all here, but the salient points are:

  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
  are met:
  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
     documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

Greg
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