Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message <201105241422.41948.vap...@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > What prevents you to continue this project as you like if I should
> > decide something that appears to be unacceptable to the community?
>
> yours will be "Das U-Boot" while mine will be an uppity fork
If you have the community with you the name alone is in vain
> doesnt denx also own the trademark on "Das U-Boot" as applied to low level
> boot loaders ?
No. I've been told that both "U-Boot" and "Das U-Boot" are too
generic terms to be used for a name mark description. If we had a
logo, we could apply for a "brand mark" (word mark and logo). But so
far we don't.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de
What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwords? :-)
- Larry Wall in <8...@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
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