From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 16: 3:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (dhcp152.cdrom.com [204.216.28.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E762D37BD1C for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA04436; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:02:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:02:10 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: "Thomas M. Sommers" Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: BSD, BSD/OS, and BSDI are trademarks of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Message-ID: <20000316160210.G2841@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> <4.2.2.20000308161012.0403adb0@localhost> <38C7D332.8760088E@dppl.com> <20000313222426.A882@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <38D15957.56930F0C@mail.ptd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38D15957.56930F0C@mail.ptd.net>; from tms2@mail.ptd.net on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:59:51PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 16 March 2000 at 16:59:51 -0500, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Thursday, 9 March 2000 at 11:37:06 -0500, Yarema wrote: >>> Brad Knowles wrote: >>>> >>>> So, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc... are perfectly safe. >>>> >>> >>> According to the above, yes. They were all given permission by BSDI >>> to use BSD in their names. And that includes FreeBSD. >> >> IIRC, these names predate BSDI's registration of the trademark. >> > > According to the trademark database at http://www.uspto.gov/, the > BSD mark was filed on 02/27/1991, and registered on 10/12/1993, and > first used on 1991.12.10. If I understand the search results > correctly, UUNET initially registered the mark, but BSDI owns it > now. Right, others have told me that too. Obviously I didn't recall correctly :-) Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message