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Date:      Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:29:48 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD commercial support <supporters@nanyang-computer.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: BSD copyrights
Message-ID:  <199804131634.KAA14384@lariat.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980413161252.R28708@freebie.lemis.com>

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At 04:12 PM 4/13/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>Somebody suggested that BSD was a copyright 

You mean "trademark...."

>of BSDI.  That's not the
>case, at least as far as I can tell after reading
>http://www.bsdi.com/info/disclaimer:
>
>  BSD/OS(tm), BSD/386(tm), BSDI(tm), MailFilter(tm), the BSDI logo,
>  and the Lizard logo are trademarks of Berkeley Software Design,
>  Inc. in the U.S.A. and other countries.
>
>  The BSD Daemon is Copyright 1988 by Marshall Kirk McKusick. 
>
>  All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and
>  are used to identify products and services of, their respective
>  owners.
>
>Greg

Yep. If anyone owns rights to the acronym BSD, it's the UC Trustees,
and it appears that they've abandoned those rights.

--Brett


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