From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 12:30:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA13323 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 12:30:00 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA13317 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 12:29:58 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA22951; Sun, 20 Aug 95 13:30:50 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508201930.AA22951@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: FBSD image To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 95 13:30:49 MDT Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, Piero@strider.ibenet.it, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1152.808891305@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 19, 95 09:01:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > I know this sour's the water a little, but it is a reality we must be > > ready to handle. We can not just allow any one to run around sticking > > the word FreeBSD on things, it must be marked ``TM'', and they must > > have licensed it. This is yet another detail we must work out, and > > we need to start to thinking about it. > > Well, let's be careful about this. I don't want to alienate people > who really are trying to do their best to promote FreeBSD, no matter > how good our intentions, and whether or not we can realistically > defend the FreeBSD trademark under *any* circumstances is something > which we must keep in mind when contemplating the types of enforcement > we want to be engaging in. Defending it on general principles > certainly sounds reasonable at first analysis, but there's also no > sense in aiming a gun at someone if it's loaded with blanks. Come up with a public license of "acceptable use" that fits the current uses and let it go until someone fails the policy test. That's relatively easy to do. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.