On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
> A> Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so
> > > much you could vote for putting it in the tree...
> >
> >What do you mean "vote"? I was waiting for it to show up on my tree
> >after a cvsup!
>
> I hate to keep bringing things like this up, or start a legal war, but this
> screensaver is more than likely a copyright and/or trademark violation, and
> bringing it into the source tree may not be a good idea. Yes, lots of
> people may be making things like this, but it would probably be best to
> distance FreeBSD itself from such a thing.
You can trademark the title "The Matrix", but you can't trademark a common
word "matrix". That's the only word I use for the name of the module. As
Daniel mentioned, they even can't claim that it's their idea.
So I think I can pretty safely import it.
Andrzej Bialecki
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