From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 17:55:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07560 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from st-lcremean.tidalwave.net (lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net [208.213.203.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA07523 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:54:24 GMT (envelope-from lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net) Received: (from lee@localhost) by st-lcremean.tidalwave.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA06265; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:53:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lee) Message-ID: <19980413205335.19287@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:53:36 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans To: gsutter@pobox.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New name? Reply-To: lcremean@tidalwave.net References: <3532AADE.CD8589C4@3skel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: ; from gsutter@pobox.com on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 08:30:03PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 08:30:03PM -0400, gsutter@pobox.com wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Dan Janowski wrote: > >Das Devaraj wrote: > >> The FreeBSD community at large may not want to change the name, > >> but some enterprising souls may repackage the same thing with a > >> catchy name (since redistribution seems to be allowed) and make > >> a few bucks. Any takers on this? :-) > > > >Redistribute it as?: > > > >BSD-x86 > >A Berkeley Operating System > >Development by FreeBSD > > > >Does this cause legal problems? DG? What are the > >restrictions on 'Unix'? > > I believe UNIX belongs to AT&T. We can't call it that. BSD-x86 is very > _very_ close to BSD/386, a copyright of BSDI. I doubt we'd get away > with that either. UNIX(tm) hasn't belonged to AT&T proper since 1990 or 1991. WHen USL was formed, the rights to the name went to them; the trademark went to X/Open around 1993 or 1994. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | lcremean@tidalwave.net FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net/~lee | finger me for geek code To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message