Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:53:36 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans <lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> To: gsutter@pobox.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New name? Message-ID: <19980413205335.19287@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413202413.19093L-100000@mph124b.rh.psu.edu>; from gsutter@pobox.com on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 08:30:03PM -0400 References: <3532AADE.CD8589C4@3skel.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413202413.19093L-100000@mph124b.rh.psu.edu>
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On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 08:30:03PM -0400, gsutter@pobox.com wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Dan Janowski wrote: > >Das Devaraj wrote: > >> The FreeBSD community at large may not want to change the name, > >> but some enterprising souls may repackage the same thing with a > >> catchy name (since redistribution seems to be allowed) and make > >> a few bucks. Any takers on this? :-) > > > >Redistribute it as?: > > > >BSD-x86 > >A Berkeley Operating System > >Development by FreeBSD > > > >Does this cause legal problems? DG? What are the > >restrictions on 'Unix'? > > I believe UNIX belongs to AT&T. We can't call it that. BSD-x86 is very > _very_ close to BSD/386, a copyright of BSDI. I doubt we'd get away > with that either. UNIX(tm) hasn't belonged to AT&T proper since 1990 or 1991. WHen USL was formed, the rights to the name went to them; the trademark went to X/Open around 1993 or 1994. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | lcremean@tidalwave.net FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net/~lee | finger me for geek code To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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