On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
>
If we wanted to be legally paranoid we would call it the "letter" saver
and add as the comment the words
"Falling letters like in the movie with red bills"
> Andrzej Bialecki
>
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