Subject: Re-branded NetBSD?
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
From: Marc Tooley <netbsdMLpostNO@SPAM.quake.ca>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 11/09/2004 10:28:27
Not like I'd go to the trouble of actually doing a rebrand (better
things to do and all that,) but all the discussion about logos and
websites and so on has gotten me curious about something: if someone
did want to rebrand NetBSD, would it still be able to set the
__NetBSD__ and various other preprocessor defines in order to maintain
compatibility? After all, a huge pile of source out there has specific
code exceptions for NetBSD and logic based on the NetBSD environment.
So I guess the question is actually, would TNF have a problem with this
given that there's some kind of trademark they own?
Or does it only count if there's a NetBSD mark and/or logo somewhere
visible?
Purely academic curiosity. :) Honest.