[mkroot] hermatic

[Alain Toussaint]

Guys, pardon me if I top post.

Rob, When I registered for Vocatus, I asked a trademark lawyer about the name (Vocatus in latin ==
Alcohol in English or Alcool in French). Such a name, isn't trademarkable in French Canada or
English Canada.

I don't know about USA but any names which are direct translation of other languages (such as latin
== French or latin == English) are not trademarkable (if that is a word).

Check for USA.

Alain


Le dimanche 18 mars 2018 à 20:16 -0500, Rob Landley a écrit :
> On 03/18/2018 07:23 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> > You know what? I've lost interest in this project now. I don't care what it's
> > called. I'll let you know if I start caring again, but it seems unlikely. I'm
> > just going to build my own systems in my own my little corner and not publish
> > any of it to anyone else so they CAN'T MAKE THIS KIND OF PROBLEM FOR ME.
> 
> I have been reminded that I've probably caught Fade's cold, and maybe should not
> be making project direction decisions right now.
> 
> But a non-lawyer giving legal advice to a guy who won't merge MIT licensed code
> into toybox because of license compatibility issues, who walked away from
> busybox maintainership because fighting Bruce reminded him too much of fighting
> SCO and just took all the fun out of it, and who has collected links like
> https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherunix.html for years? An australian
> giving a US citizen advice about german (EU) trademark law.
> 
> It made me very, very tired. And headachey. And I'm going to step away from the
> keyboard now.
> 
> Rob
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