Re: Name of the XFree86-based DDX
Daniel Stone <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver |
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On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:23:15PM +0000, Martin Coxall wrote: > Daniel Stone wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:06:21AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > >>I think we can keep the existing name (XFree86); it's entirely their code. > >> > >>Let's pend renaming stuff until we get a firm legal opinion about what we > >>need to change and what we musn't change. > > XFree86 is a registered trademark of XFree86 Inc., so if you want to > avoid the possibility of future lawsuits, that name should probably be > avoided at all costs. Right. On the 'let's be nice' principle, I don't think they'd like us using their name, either. -- Daniel Stone <[email protected]> freedesktop.org: powering your desktop http://www.freedesktop.org
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