From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 09:35:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28994 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:35:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28969 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:35:09 GMT (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14384; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:34:59 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199804131634.KAA14384@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:29:48 -0600 To: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD commercial support , FreeBSD Chat From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: BSD copyrights In-Reply-To: <19980413161252.R28708@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message