Date: 17 Oct 2001 10:43:34 -0700 From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <87adyq2md5.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> In-Reply-To: <20011010133330.I82541@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <01100820163507.00577@gunnar.weygold.edu> <000501c15083$5f1787c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20011010133330.I82541@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes:
| Nobody's denying that there was a BSD UNIX. The question is, is FreeBSD BSD
| UNIX? The answer is "no". With the removal of the last of the AT&T code
| from BSD, it lost the right to be called UNIX. I believe this was also part
| of the out-of-court settlement with AT&T.
UNIX ["UNIX" is a registered trademark of The Open Group] is mostly dead at
this point. But the trademark can still bite you in the rear, thanks to The
Open Group ["The Open Group" is a registered trademark of The Open Group].
That's okay, though. Its progeny live on, free and unencumbered. I'm pretty
sure we can say:
FreeBSD has its historical roots in BSD UNIX 4.4 (UNIX is now a
registered trademark of The Open Group), and is. . . .
After that point, you refer to it as a BSD operating system, or possibly a
Un*x-style operating system ["Un*x" is probably not a registered trademark of
The Open Group]. Of course, we can get caught if "BSD" is a trademark. Is it?
Whoops. Has anyone checked?
I think it's time to stake a claim on "BSD" instead of Yuniqs ["Yuniqs" is most
certainly not a trademark of The Open Group], and let out old friend out to
pasture. It's earned it, after all that legal battle.
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