On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:40:48PM -0700, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> writes:
> > The only trouble with that being Kirk's request / instructions / something:
> > 
> > > Individuals may use the daemon for their personal use within the bounds of
> > > good taste (an example of bad taste was a picture of the BSD daemon blow-
> > > torching a Solaris logo).
> > 
> > ...from <http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html>...
> 
> And that only applies if you take _his daemon image_ and do those
> types of things with it.
> 
> If you draw your own daemon from scratch, you can do whatever you like
> with it.

No, that's completely wrong. If you draw your own daemon from scratch
you are still infringing Kirk's copyright on the daemon. It is
appropriate to ask permission even if you do it in good taste and for
BSD purposes.

As for the proposed idea, which would not be approved anyway, many
would question what sort of operating system would require people to
act in such bad taste in order to demonstrate superiority. It would
only be bad PR for NetBSD.

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Regards,
        -*Sue*-