From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28215 invoked by alias); 7 May 2003 23:55:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28199 invoked from network); 7 May 2003 23:55:04 -0000 Message-ID: <3EB99CD6.6060001@eCosCentric.com> Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 23:55:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Schuilenburg Cc: eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: Patch policy References: <1052225944.30126.4370.camel@hermes> <20030506132550.GK24032@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> <3EB7CAAF.4050807@eCosCentric.com> <3EB96CDB.5080405@eCosCentric.com> <1052344447.30126.14197.camel@hermes> <3EB99066.1030502@eCosCentric.com> <3EB99933.3060409@ecoscentric.com> In-Reply-To: <3EB99933.3060409@ecoscentric.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 Alex Schuilenburg wrote: > Jonathan Larmour wrote: > [...] > >> Interestingly, the main s.r.c eCos and redboot websites have _never_ >> mentioned trademarks, nor has the logo ever had a (TM) superscript. >> The logo isn't a registered trademark AFAIK, so RH's legal protection >> is minimal. > > > Incorrect. ECOS and the logo are *both* registered trademarks of Red > Hat, so be careful there. eCos is a *registered* trademark. The logo AFAIK isn't. > The TM superscript does indeed exist for the > logo on all handouts given away by Red Hat and Cygnus, TM doesn't mean registered though.... specifically not in fact. I believe you that there may well have been handouts with the TM superscript... in fact I've just looked and the stickers I have here do have the TM I see. But the laxness in applying the TM as evidenced by the existing public use of logos by Red Hat makes it very difficult to enforce. > and I have > correspondence from Mark Webbink verifying this. He lumped the eCos registered trademark and other trademarks together if you're referring to what I think you are. Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts --[ "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you ]-- --[ can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Lincoln ]-- Opinions==mine