Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:47:32 +0400 From: Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: free sco unix Message-ID: <20110616154732.GM5630@external.screwed.box> In-Reply-To: <201106161006.42844.rsimmons0@gmail.com> References: <4DF9174F.50708@danskdatacenter.dk> <20110616125219.GK5630@external.screwed.box> <4DFA03A3.8090500@infracaninophile.co.uk> <201106161006.42844.rsimmons0@gmail.com>
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You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions! 2011/06/16 10:06:42 -0400 Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> => To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : RS> I think the confusion that you all are having is between the idea of RS> "copyright" and "trademark". They are different. Copyright applies to the As I suspected ;-) RS> So, if you wanted to call your software "UNIX" you would need to contact Open RS> Group and make sure that your software licences the trademark, and complies This will require some efforts from Open Group. Does FreeBSD Foundation pay for that? RS> with the standard. If you want to use the source code of UNIX itself, you RS> would license that from Attachmate. 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.? 73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 2871 5EA7 52AB 12F8 0CE1 4AAC A0E2 6627) -- http://vereshagin.org
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