Demon license?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Greg 'groggy'
>Lehey
>Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 4:14 PM
>To: Ray Jenson
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; taob at risc.org
>Subject: Re: Demon license?
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>
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>> 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.

Strictly speaking, the IMAGES of the daemon that are on the mckusick.com
website are what is copyrighted.  Nothing is stopping someone from
drawing
a 'devil' image and associating it with FreeBSD.

Over the years there have been many representations of the BSD Daemon.
Not all are copyrighted by Kirk, for example:

http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/shirts/bsdunix.html
http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/shirts/usenix.html

Both the above are USENIX copyrights - per Kirk.

However, to me the most classic "FreeBSD Daemon" image that has ever been
done has been the 4.3BSD one:

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

That one, and similar variants, I think also are the most recognizable
one
as the "FreeBSD one".  And that one and the variants are copyrighted by
Kirk.

Ted