Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 7/9] vfio/display: core & wireup

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:52:39 +0100
Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com> wrote:

> > diff --git a/hw/vfio/display.c b/hw/vfio/display.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..3e997f8a44
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/hw/vfio/display.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
> > +/*
> > + * display support for mdev based vgpu devices
> > + *
> > + * Copyright Red Hat, Inc. 2017  
> 
> Just curious here since I don't really know close to nothing about the legal
> stuff, but isn't vGPU NVIDIA's trademark - [1,2,3] (especially [1]) would
> suggest so. Therefore, I'm just curious whether we can mention this as we
> please, especially when this should also work for Intel, which uses a different
> name for the technology. On the other hand, grepping through kernel modules,
> there's a lot of vGPU misuse in Intel's context, so I guess everything's fine.
> Again, I'm just curious since I have no clue about this stuff.
> 
> [1] https://www.geforce.com/en_GB/gfecnt/support/NVIDIA-Legal-Notices
> [2] https://trademarks.justia.com/859/42/vgpu-85942337.html
> [3] https://trademarks.justia.com/859/42/nvidia-grid-85942341.html

IANAL, but the official trademark trackers all seem to indicate "VGPU"
was filed for, but abandoned, so perhaps your link [1] above is stale
data (note that the copyright date on that is 2014 and the trademark
abandonment dates are late 2014/early 2015).  I'm not sure that it
matters either way though.  Thanks,

Alex