From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 01:22:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F2216A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:22:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from engine140.deployzone.net (engine140.deployzone.net [193.17.85.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9100343D2F for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:22:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@czv.com) Received: from adsl-212-90-218-5.cybernet.ch [212.90.218.5] by engine140.deployzone.net; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 02:21:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: <56478844.20050214015516@wanadoo.fr> References: <56478844.20050214015516@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chris Zumbrunn Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 02:22:35 +0100 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Subject: Re: FreeBSD trademark status X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:22:37 -0000 On Feb 14, 2005, at 1:55 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Notice that the registered trademark covers only an "archive of > computer > programs" on CD-ROM. It says nothing about an operating system. This > means that someone can still use the FreeBSD mark to designate an > operating system as a separate trademark. I wonder why such a > restrictive scope was given to the original trademark. Was FreeBSD > already a complete operating system in 1993? The FreeBSD foundation is updating this to reflect the current use. /czv