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 4:14 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> The daemon is copyright of Kirk McKusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. >>>> 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. >> >> I no longer speak for the FreeBSD project, but we have never wanted to >> be associated with devils. I'm sure we would object if someone drew a >> 'devil' image and associated it with FreeBSD. > > Oh, you must think yourself very clever for that bit of deliberate > misinterpretation. I hope you don't let it go to your head.
This isn't misinterpretation. They're your words. You've been around the project for a long time, but you still don't understand how important it is to us to refer to the daemon correctly. > On a more serious note, the userbase is objecting to certain members > of The Project wanting to jettison the daemon image, and replace it > with an image of a stuffed Teddy Bear (or something equally > politically correct) so in the absense of the Project having much > respect for what the userbase wants in the area of FreeBSD images, > you can hardly expect the userbase to have much respect for what the > Project wants in the area of FreeBSD images, now can you? I must be out of touch. I haven't seen any of this. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html The virus contained in this message was detected, clubbed to death and distributed throughout the Internet as vaccine by LEMIS anti-virus. For further details see http://www.lemis.com/grog/lemis-virus.html Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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