From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 16 15:47:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E721065670 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:47:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@vereshagin.org) Received: from mx1.skyriver.ru (ns1.skyriver.ru [89.108.118.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924BC8FC12 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (iamthepants.net [193.110.157.152]) by mx1.skyriver.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2F19C5C54 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:24:00 +0400 (MSD) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:47:32 +0400 From: Peter Vereshagin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110616154732.GM5630@external.screwed.box> References: <4DF9174F.50708@danskdatacenter.dk> <20110616125219.GK5630@external.screwed.box> <4DFA03A3.8090500@infracaninophile.co.uk> <201106161006.42844.rsimmons0@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201106161006.42844.rsimmons0@gmail.com> Organization: ' X-Face: 8T>{1owI$Byj]]a; ^G]kRf*dkq>E-3':F>4ODP[#X4s"dr?^b&2G@'3lukno]A1wvJ_L(~u 6>I2ra/<,j1%@C[LN=>p#_}RIV+#:KTszp-X$bQOj,K Subject: Re: free sco unix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:47:46 -0000 You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions! 2011/06/16 10:06:42 -0400 Robert Simmons => To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : RS> I think the confusion that you all are having is between the idea of RS> "copyright" and "trademark". They are different. Copyright applies to the As I suspected ;-) RS> So, if you wanted to call your software "UNIX" you would need to contact Open RS> Group and make sure that your software licences the trademark, and complies This will require some efforts from Open Group. Does FreeBSD Foundation pay for that? RS> with the standard. If you want to use the source code of UNIX itself, you RS> would license that from Attachmate. So nobody knows if Lunus will once upon a time split Linux code from himself de jure as he did de facto nowadays and just have an income from such a regular trademark sales from, say, Linux Foundation, Attachmate, etc.? 73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 2871 5EA7 52AB 12F8 0CE1 4AAC A0E2 6627) -- http://vereshagin.org