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From: 	Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
To: 	Josh Williams <yurimxpxman@gmail.com>
Subject: 	Re: BSD Daemon permission 
Date: 	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:15:07 -0700  (19:15 EDT)


> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:49:11 -0400
> From: "Josh Williams" <yurimxpxman@gmail.com>
> To: mckusick@mckusick.com
> Subject: BSD Daemon permission
> X-ASK-Info: Message Queued (2007/04/12 07:50:08)
> X-ASK-Info: Confirmed by User (2007/04/12 07:52:44)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I, along with a small group of other individuals, are writing
> articles about the mascots of free operating systems for Citizendium.
> May we please include a high quality image of the BSD Daemon in the
> article? And, of course, any suggestions you have on the article
> would be very welcome. :)
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Joshua David Williams
> 
> http://www.citizendium.org/
> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon
> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Joshua_David_Williams
> 
> -- 
> ~~ In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates? ~~

I prefer that the BSD Daemon be used in the context of BSD software.
Clearly your usage qualifies. You have already provided a link to my
copyright message, so I don't need to request that you do that :-)

The highest resolution image that I have is available at
http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/gif/bsd4_3.gif. See also
http://www.zer0.org/daemons/wc/standing_daemon.jpg. Alternatively,
there is a vectorized version that can be scaled to any size you
want in /usr/[src/]share/examples/BSD_daemon on recent FreeBSD
distributions.

My only correction to the BSD_Daemon web page is that daemon and demon
are really different words. A daemon comes from the old English and
means a deified being (half-man and half god) while a demon is an
evil spirit.

        Marshall Kirk McKusick