Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:28:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>, Matthias Buelow <mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MacOS X , FreeBSD, UNIX and kleenex Message-ID: <3CE40852.EB497039@mindspring.com> References: <86D234B0-68FE-11D6-93D6-0003931BED80@shire.net>
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"Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" wrote: > On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 02:50 , Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >> All they have to do is include some of the UNIX > >> code anywhere in the product, and it's UNIX-derived and > >> therefore permitted to use the trademark on it. > > > > So now that FreeBSD includes the One True Awk, it qualifies for the > > UNIX trademark? > > Is Apple saying it is UNIX or it is UNIX-like or UNIX-derived or > UNIX-something else? Apple has a license of "the one true UNIX": SVR4. The certification is only necessary if you don't have a license. Having "awk" doesn't make it UNIX; being derived from source code whose license includes the right to use the license to the trademark is what conveys the right to use the trademark. Apple has such a source license, and so they are grandfathered, as long as they include some of the code on the machine (A/UX). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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