You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions! 2011/06/16 12:46:20 -0600 Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> => To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : CP> > But both are just words/phrases, right? CP> CP> Here's an example of the difference:
Good example, it's on-topic ;-) CP> UNIX, the name, is a trademark. We can use it all we like here, speaking Do we need a license to use it? ;-) CP> about the UNIX trademark, its applicability, who owns the trademark, and CP> so on. We just can't claim *we* own it, misapply it to things to which So it's just enough to reserve a copyright on this word usage and we will have just another reason why we can't claim we own it ;-) Sorry my confusion, it's just a new thing to me and it seems as absurd as those ideas. CP> it does not legally apply, and so on (subject to some fair use CP> exceptions, such as parodies). CP> CP> The source code of a closed source UNIX operating system such as HP-UX is CP> not trademarked, because it is not an identifying mark. Because it is CP> subject to copyright, if one of us has legally gained access to it, we CP> cannot just post it all in its entirety to the mailing list (assuming CP> that posting that much source to the list wasn't a problem in and of CP> itself) without violating copyright laws of most industrialized CP> countries -- regardless of what we said about it. CP> CP> The difference is that trademarks are used to identify some entity and CP> its creations, while copyrights are used to censor the redistribution of CP> creations themselves. CP> CP> -- CP> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] 73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 2871 5EA7 52AB 12F8 0CE1 4AAC A0E2 6627) -- http://vereshagin.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"