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RE: Naming of Cygwin/XFree86 components
- To: "'Andrew Markebo'" <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>, "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Naming of Cygwin/XFree86 components
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:40:46 -0400
There is nothing illegal. no one owns xwin except xwindows itself.
Unless you are willing to consult your patent and trademark lawyer and have
us send his
$$$$ opinion, for which we have no money :-)
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:flognat@flognat.myip.org]
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 8:38 AM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Naming of Cygwin/XFree86 components
>
>
> Just a thought, if we are doing something 'wrong', without knowing it
> or so, aren't we allowed to change the name when we got told that it
> was wrong? And first if we deny to change the name, stuff starts
> getting 'illegal'?
>
> /Andy
>
>
> |
> | You my reasons for not changing it are
> | 1) no legal issues that we know of (unless a laywer is
> willing to comment).
> | 2) CVS revision history will be lost.
> | 3) cosmetic change only, no end user involvement.
> |
> | Feel free to pick on those :]
> |
> | > Harold
> | >
>