From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
To: Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@redhat.com>
Cc: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>, overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Officially changing name to sourceware.org
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ekvkxgqo.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312041846490.20700-100000@lacrosse.corp.redhat.com>
Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@redhat.com> writes:
> Wasn't there some reason sourceware.org couldn't be used? Trademark or some
> such? It doesn't really bother me one way or another if the name changes, but
> I know there was some discussion about this back when it lived on a Red Hat
> ip block. I'm not sure if the issue is even relevant anymore.
>
> Could someone who remembers please enlignten me?
SourceWare is a trademark of Pliant Technologies, which was purchased
by Market Central.
Look here for the SourceWare suite of products:
http://www.marketcentral.com/crm_dat_sol/default.asp
We at Cygnus tried to trademark sourceware, but we couldn't, or maybe
we could and then we didn't keep it up. Either way, Pliant picked it
up.
There is a different company which owns the domain name
sourceware.com: Datasource Software Corporation.
I own the domain name sourceware.org, and for some time now
sourceware.org has been an alias for sources.redhat.com.
Anyhow, we may not want to use sourceware for commercial purposes.
But I don't think it would be a big problem to use sourceware.org.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-05 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-04 23:34 Christopher Faylor
2003-12-04 23:49 ` Matthew Galgoci
2003-12-05 0:15 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2003-12-05 22:23 ` law
2003-12-05 23:40 ` Matthew Galgoci
2003-12-05 23:42 ` Jason Molenda
2003-12-05 23:52 ` Matthew Galgoci
2003-12-06 0:00 ` Jason Molenda
2003-12-06 0:02 ` Matthew Galgoci
2003-12-06 0:39 ` Christopher Faylor
[not found] ` <20031204161637.A81068@molenda.com>
2003-12-05 0:16 ` Jason Molenda
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