From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 16 16:07:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43D110656B6 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:07:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsimmons0@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68EAE8FC08 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxc34 with SMTP id 34so1804664vxc.13 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:07:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=0iwqwqwYa34RawlDkFe9RvJ83Ok/LH3zyeR1dmrXL18=; b=APfyuOrDbYw/9TYmli7Ox0D/hdvga7PmeJsBXkXIT0saGwpIrKtZxiaVsD4PByTdcJ +f3zj7JEyIB31qTWJEH2SGpSfXtyK93D9uV2Sr7zM3binMKoFgQ8xb5+4cMIlV/JYe6G MLt2ljv2tngmAi3j7EVITpOmz9m8gAzXj0vQM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Lsmo97RzdXyGiWLE0RheWRJmvmNfUsVQRwiTcSINop7TyUhtoULIV+uW9sT3kB4F42 JGNNjHO6G2i8a0t5KvVgSRjc5X3AHiWERSQeM3Q4ah9b5W3kQAJ3t4niITmmxVY33dTs M0P7xn5/LYTQsJZ2ikHS4+KcQME3TN4S5sUH4= Received: by 10.52.185.231 with SMTP id ff7mr1597107vdc.103.1308240424344; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skynet.localnet (pool-108-28-47-226.washdc.fios.verizon.net [108.28.47.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id du6sm586879vdb.45.2011.06.16.09.07.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:07:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Simmons To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:07:00 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-8-generic; KDE/4.6.4; i686; ; ) References: <4DF9174F.50708@danskdatacenter.dk> <201106161006.42844.rsimmons0@gmail.com> <20110616154732.GM5630@external.screwed.box> In-Reply-To: <20110616154732.GM5630@external.screwed.box> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106161207.01042.rsimmons0@gmail.com> Subject: Re: free sco unix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rsimmons0@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:07:05 -0000 On Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:47:32 AM Peter Vereshagin wrote: > This will require some efforts from Open Group. Does FreeBSD Foundation pay > for that? Not necessary. FreeBSD does not use (want to use/need to use) the UNIX trademark and according to the USL vs. BSDi court case, FreeBSD does not have to worry about copyright either. > So nobody knows if Lunus will once upon a time split Linux code from > himself de jure as he did de facto nowadays and just have an income from > such a regular trademark sales from, say, Linux Foundation, Attachmate, > etc.? No. The linux trademark in the US is held by Linus. The Linux Trademark Institute licenses the trademark to organizations under a free, perpetual, worldwide sublicense. So, even if Linus were to change his mind and try to start suing everyone using the trademark, (pigs fly first) it would all be thrown out of court. Additionally, the source code is GPL, so even if in the fictional world of Linus taking the trademark elsewhere, you can fork the code and call it Morphtkdlfgjfjdsksjfnmvmdkedkfjgjg, and you would be fine. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/legal/trademark