Naming of Cygwin/XFree86 components

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

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
> | >
>