Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Gnumenclature was Re: IBM, was never Re: Linux Kernel | Date | Sat, 09 Jan 1999 17:42:20 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <775geo$mlp@pell.pell.portland.or.us>, david parsons writes: +----- | In article <linux.kernel.m0zxc9j-0007U3C@the-village.bc.nu>, | Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: | >> You know, the Berkeley people never would have insisted that we call it | >> Berkeley Linux if we had used their versions of all of these tools. In | >> retrospect, I wonder if it wasn't a mistake not to have done so. | > | >Of course not. Thats why they require you plaster their name all over your | >advertising material and manuals. | | I'm not sure that's the case; I certainly don't see their name plastered | all over the advertising material and manuals for any of the versions of | Linux that include Berkeley code (I believe that would be all of them | except possibly the Linux Router Project's distribution.) +--->8
In fact, the opposite to some extent: one of the standard provisions of the BSD license is that you can't use the names of the various entities involved with its development in advertizing.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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