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Date:      Mon, 13 Apr 1998 02:45:03 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New name? 
Message-ID:  <199804130945.CAA03678@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:35:32 %2B1000." <Pine.BSI.3.95.980413193257.17486A-100000@python.shoal.net.au> 

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>On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, David Greenman wrote:
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>> >Other names that were mentioned are "BSD Gold" and "BSD 2000".
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>>    All of these would violate BSDI's trademark. I think I can say with some
>> certainty that we will never change the name away from FreeBSD.
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>Would it be possible to retain the name FreeBSD (which I wouldn't like to
>change anyway) and sell a product labelled as BSD Gold, BSD Pro etc... in
>addition to the FreeBSD 2.2.6 currently sold?

   ...it would still violate the trademark. A product name like FreeBSD/Pro
is definately not a problem, and is even (extremely) likely, in fact. :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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