Re: Devlinks. Code. (Dcache abuse?)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 05:17:29 EST


> As I understand trademarks, they are granted for a particular context.
> There is no conflict between "Dove" as a brand name for soap, "Dove"
> as a brand name for chocolate, and "Dove" as used by bird watchers in
> their taxonomy.

We have already had a vendor threaten legal action if we didn't change the
name of a file system before merging it with the kernel.

Alan
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