From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 4 13: 4:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (rider.dunham.org [207.170.123.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F0437B405 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 13:04:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f64G4Kk01655; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 11:04:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 11:04:20 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Robert Clark Cc: "Michael C . Wu" , Josef Grosch , FreeBSD Crap Subject: Trademarks (was: FreeBSD Services Ltd) Message-ID: <20010704110420.A1649@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20010629151921.A78954@mooseriver.com> <20010629161649.A65663@darkstar.gte.net> <20010629225137.D69846@peorth.iteration.net> <20010630110717.B69279@darkstar.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010630110717.B69279@darkstar.gte.net>; from res03db2@gte.net on Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:07:17AM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 30 June 2001 at 11:07:17 -0700, Robert Clark wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:51:37PM -0500, Michael C . Wu wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:16:49PM -0700, Robert Clark scribbled: >>> >>> The have a picture of chuck holding a crescent wrench (adjustable >>> spanner) too. Using that graphic would require asking permission. >>> >>> Using the name "FreeBSD" would require getting permission too. >>> >>> So either they've done their homework, or they're looking for a >>> rumble. >> >> Please do your homework. Kirk states using the daemon for anything >> other than obscene purposes is OK. In addition, FreeBSD is not >> an enforceable trademark. > > Wow, I didn't know that. Neither did I. On the contrary, I know that Kirk does what he can to ensure that the daemon image is only used in a BSD context, and FreeBSD was a registered trade mark of BSDi. I assume it has now gone to Wind River systems. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message