Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:12:16 +0200 From: Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Issues with FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE Release Notes Message-ID: <CAKkunMZMDMd52vNhn7093zYOYqV2Pmz2r8YKU8n4rnyg0ZkSPw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi! I just received the FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE Release Notes (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.2R/relnotes.html) and noticed two issues with the "Trademark" preamble: > IBM, AIX, OS/2, PowerPC, PS/2, S/390, and ThinkPad are trademarks of Inte= rnational Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countri= es, or both. ThinkPad is not a trademark of IBM. >Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish = their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear i= n this document, and the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, = the designations have been followed by the =E2=80=9C=E2=84=A2=E2=80=9D or t= he =E2=80=9C=C2=AE=E2=80=9D symbol. I'm not sure if this is actually followed in the rest of the documentation, but =C2=AE and =E2=84=A2 are really only supposed to be used= by the owner of those trademarks - they are the ones to claim the ownership. AFAIK, the only special handling given to a trademark is to treat it like a proper name, so "I installed Windows" instead of "I installed windows". IANAL but I suggest that you remove pretty much everything of that legal preamble, perhaps only saving "FreeBSD is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.". Kind regards, Anders
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