Subject: Re: unofficial poll about new logo
To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@netbsd.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: current-users
Date: 11/01/2004 15:27:30
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:20:56PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> The BSD moniker isn't subject to copyright AFAIK.  The daemon clearly
> is.
> 
> I very much doubt that the letters BSD could be copyrighted (but I'm not
> a lawyer).  Trademark is much more likely, but even then the laws on
> trademarking are very different to those on copyright

And TNF owns the NetBSD(R) trademark, see
http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/#trademark.

Martin