From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 16 12:29:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1295137B409; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0236.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.236] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 178Qvn-0003vK-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:28:56 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE40852.EB497039@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:28:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , Matthias Buelow , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MacOS X , FreeBSD, UNIX and kleenex References: <86D234B0-68FE-11D6-93D6-0003931BED80@shire.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" wrote: > On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 02:50 , Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >> All they have to do is include some of the UNIX > >> code anywhere in the product, and it's UNIX-derived and > >> therefore permitted to use the trademark on it. > > > > So now that FreeBSD includes the One True Awk, it qualifies for the > > UNIX trademark? > > Is Apple saying it is UNIX or it is UNIX-like or UNIX-derived or > UNIX-something else? Apple has a license of "the one true UNIX": SVR4. The certification is only necessary if you don't have a license. Having "awk" doesn't make it UNIX; being derived from source code whose license includes the right to use the license to the trademark is what conveys the right to use the trademark. Apple has such a source license, and so they are grandfathered, as long as they include some of the code on the machine (A/UX). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message