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To: Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au>
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Subject: Re: New name? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:35:32 +1000."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 02:45:03 -0700
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>
>
>On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, David Greenman wrote:
>
>> >
>> >Other names that were mentioned are "BSD Gold" and "BSD 2000".
>> 
>>    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.
>> 
>
>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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