From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Devlinks. Code. (Dcache abuse?)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 04:05:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011119040506.A27266@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15352.32969.717938.153375@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> <E165lUX-00066W-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E165lUX-00066W-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Mon Nov 19, 2001 at 10:17:29AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > As I understand trademarks, they are granted for a particular context.
> > There is no conflict between "Dove" as a brand name for soap, "Dove"
> > as a brand name for chocolate, and "Dove" as used by bird watchers in
> > their taxonomy.
>
> We have already had a vendor threaten legal action if we didn't change the
> name of a file system before merging it with the kernel.
Sore losers I guess. :-)
-Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-19 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-16 10:08 Devlinks. Code. (Dcache abuse?) Neil Brown
2001-11-16 10:26 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-19 3:47 ` Neil Brown
2001-11-19 8:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-19 10:30 ` Neil Brown
2001-11-19 10:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-19 10:40 ` Neil Brown
2001-11-19 11:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-19 11:21 ` Neil Brown
2001-11-19 11:27 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-20 1:06 ` Neil Brown
2001-11-24 20:44 ` Rob Landley
2001-11-19 20:41 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-19 21:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-19 22:06 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-19 11:05 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2001-11-16 10:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-19 4:02 ` Neil Brown
2001-11-16 19:14 ` Andrew Pimlott
2001-11-16 20:42 ` Neil Brown
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