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Re: [MiNT] ERIC SMITH, PLEASE!!! ;-) uname reply - a final proposition

To: mint@fishpool.com
Subject: Re: [MiNT] ERIC SMITH, PLEASE!!! ;-) uname reply - a final proposition
From: Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:25:38 +0100
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9902051726430.24760-100000@nidus.mi.com.pl>; from Konrad Kokoszkiewicz on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 05:29:18PM +0100
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990204094634.15095D-100000@hal.fishpool.com> <Pine.LNX.4.05.9902051726430.24760-100000@nidus.mi.com.pl>
Sender: owner-mint@fishpool.com

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 05:29:18PM +0100, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:
> 
> Martin, get real and read the MiNT's legal blurp again. FreeMiNT is not
> MiNT. FreeMiNT is a "software derived from MiNT", not MiNT itself, hence
> it (FreeMiNT) cannot officially use its (MiNT's) name. I am not a lawyer,
> but that is what my common sense says to myself. Perhaps it is wrong,
> though...

However, as long a noone claims the trademark 'MiNT', there should be no
problem in using 'MiNT' as the Name of the whole system (and as output for
uname), even if the Kernel is a variant of MiNT called FreeMiNT etc..

cu
Michael
-- 
Michael Schwingen, Ahornstrasse 36, 52074 Aachen

References:
- Re: [MiNT] ERIC SMITH, PLEASE!!! ;-) uname reply - a final proposition
  - From: Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>
- Re: [MiNT] ERIC SMITH, PLEASE!!! ;-) uname reply - a final proposition
  - From: Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>

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