Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:17:21 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991123131420.047f5370@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199911231838.LAA01689@usr06.primenet.com> References: <199911230506.XAA06976@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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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
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