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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: What is "BSD"? Date: 21 Aug 1995 20:39:01 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 41 Message-ID: <41aqt5$hkt@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <CGD.95Aug20032937@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU> <4199pv$skk@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <41adgc$b0m@bsdi.bsdi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <41adgc$b0m@bsdi.bsdi.com> kolstad@BSDI.COM (Rob Kolstad) writes: > >BSDI does, in fact, own the trademark on BSD. > >Why? > >Because otherwise any random person could create a product, e.g., >a news-server for Windows/NT, and call it the `BSD news server'. >Or worse, they could sell the BSD Internet Server (or any other >product that causes confusion with our company's products). So, how does BSDi stand on the following: "source code freely available under the BSD Copyright." "4.4BSD-lite system" "4.3BSD" "BSD sockets" "BSD fast filesystem" "Berkeley Software Distribution" "_BSD_VA_LIST_" "_BSD_SIZE_T_" etc... I can't believe that BSDi is going to require a license agreement from anyone using the above? Perhaps they are only targetting competitors? Where does it end? -Andrew -- ============================ Real 32bit multi-tasking UN*X System Andrew Gillham | TCP/IP,NFS,PPP,4.4BSD-lite,multi-user gillham@andrews.edu | i386,sparc,alpha,mac68k,amiga,others LAN/WAN/NW/UN*X specialist | ---> http://www.NetBSD.org <---