Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:19:16 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Michael Sokolov <mxs46@k2.scl.cwru.edu>
Cc: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD
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On Tuesday, 26 January 1999 at  3:40:40 -0500, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>
>> Now you mention this, I seem to remember that BSDI registered the name
>> BSD as a trade mark, so you wouldn't be able to even if you wanted to.
>
> That's nonsense. You can't trademark something that isn't even
> yours. 

You can trademark anything that hasn't already been trademarked.

> BSDI has no rights whatsoever to the code copyrighted by the Regents
> of University of California.

Of course they have.  The rights are described in the Berkeley
License.

> The BSD license agreement explicitly allows unrestricted
> modification and distribution of modified versions.

Precisely.

Greg
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