From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 8 15:56:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20D737B676 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:56:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.27.128] (dialup1286.brussels.skynet.be [194.78.233.6]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD86E1223B; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:56:47 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000308161012.0403adb0@localhost> References: <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> <4.2.2.20000308161012.0403adb0@localhost> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:15:46 +0100 To: Brett Glass , "Donald Burr of Borg - http://www.borg-cube.com/" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 4:11 PM -0700 2000/3/8, Brett Glass wrote: > I'm talking about the TRADEMARK. That's different. Will BSD, Inc. now > insist, for example, that no one else can use BSD in a product name? Well, I guess you'd have to talk to -core, but I think you'd get some extremely violent disagreements from certain people who used to be at CSRG (Kirk McKusick?) if they were so stupid as to try to do this. The stuff I heard from Jordan this past weekend gave me every indication that people can use the code as they want (pursuant to the license), and they can use the name "BSD" however they want in their products and company names, so long as they don't try to confuse people into thinking it's FreeBSD. So, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc... are perfectly safe. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy ========================================================================= Brad Knowles, Sys. Arch., Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Note: No Microsoft programs were used in the creation or distribution of this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message, be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter as a result. See for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message