From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 23 12:18:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DCC315320 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:18:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA21031; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:17:25 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991123131420.047f5370@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:17:21 -0700 To: Terry Lambert , dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199911231838.LAA01689@usr06.primenet.com> References: <199911230506.XAA06976@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:38 PM 11/23/1999 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >With respect... > >"Open Source" is a common law trademark of the Open Source Initiative. As I understand it, the "Open Source Initiative" people were denied a trademark registration by the USPTO and subsequently dropped any claim of ownership of the mark. Also, any attempt to use the abbreviation "OSI" in a mark would likely fail, due to conflicts with well-established names used by the International Standards Organization (e.g. the "ISO [networking] Model"). --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message