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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 06:32:03 +0100
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers?
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At 5:52 PM -0700 2000/3/15, Brett Glass wrote:

>  The concern is that they will allow no further use of the term "BSD"
>  because they don't want competition. And could claim that it's being done
>  in the name of "unification."

	I have no reason to suspect this, but if you do, then this is a 
good time to bring it up.  However, you should not be basing 
statements or arguments on an assumption like this, which has not yet 
proven to be either false or true.  You simply don't know whether or 
not you have a leg to stand on.

	In fact, I believe that they will continue to allow people to use 
"BSD" without undue restraint, because any OS that is substantially 
derived from the BSD base has a right to be called "SomethingBSD" or 
"BSD Something" or otherwise have "BSD" somewhere in it's name. 
However, again you would probably get into trouble if you tried to 
call it just "BSD", because then you would be infringing on their 
trademark.


	If you stick to just the things you know as fact, or you voice 
the concerns that you have without wildly extrapolating an entirely 
new universe based on those (perhaps unstated) concerns, then you 
shouldn't have any problems from me.

--
   These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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