[coreboot] Hmm Is the coreboot name copyrighted?
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Sun May 31 11:53:38 CEST 2009
On 31.05.2009 07:21, Joseph Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 30 May 2009 23:25:32 -0400, Robinson Tryon
> <bishop.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It looks like the NTT Data company made an announcement in 2007 about
>> their "CoreBoot" thin client:
>>
>> http://www.nttdata.co.jp/en/media/2007/062500.html
>>
>>
>> "LinuxBIOS" was rebranded "coreboot" at the very beginning of 2008:
>>
> Well that is not good news....
>
Fortunately, coreboot is a registered trademark of coresystems (Stefan's
company) since 2007. The LinuxBIOS->coreboot name change was made long
after the trademark had been registered, so I think we're safe.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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