4.4BSD

Greg Lehey grog at lemis.com
Tue Jan 26 18:49:16 AEST 1999


On Tuesday, 26 January 1999 at  3:40:40 -0500, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> Greg Lehey <grog at 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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