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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:06:37 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...")
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020123180421.01d7b220@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123091107.T32624-100000@localhost> <20020123124025.A60889@HAL9000.wox.org>

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At 05:57 PM 1/23/2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

>5)      You can't even do it for the money, and still be
>        allowed to use the FreeBSD trademark by calling
>        it FreeBSD, unless you donate the code back, it
>        happens to get accepted instead of rejected, and
>        you thus remove your source of "value add" from
>        which you expect to recoup the R&D costs with a
>        proprietary FreeBSD CDROM distribution that has
>        a technical barrier to entry for duplication (it
>        might as well be under the GPL).

Terry:

Who is attempting to enforce such absurdly tight restrictions 
on the use of the FreeBSD trademark? Certainly, there should be
an ability to offer one's own installer, as is true with NetBSD.

--Brett


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