From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 18:31: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0211537B408 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9C3916AB15; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:00:49 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:00:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ken McGlothlen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <20011018110048.B95006@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <01100820163507.00577@gunnar.weygold.edu> <000501c15083$5f1787c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20011010133330.I82541@wantadilla.lemis.com> <87adyq2md5.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <87adyq2md5.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>; from mcglk@artlogix.com on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:43:34AM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 17 October 2001 at 10:43:34 -0700, Ken McGlothlen wrote: > Greg Lehey 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? Yes, of course. It belongs to Wind River Systems. We have permission to use it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message