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[Robert Simmons]

On Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:47:32 AM Peter Vereshagin wrote:
> This will require some efforts from Open Group. Does FreeBSD Foundation pay
> for that?

Not necessary.  FreeBSD does not use (want to use/need to use) the UNIX 
trademark and according to the USL vs. BSDi court case, FreeBSD does not have 
to worry about copyright either.

> So nobody knows if Lunus will once upon a time split Linux code from
> himself de jure as he did de facto nowadays and just have an income from
> such a regular trademark sales from, say, Linux Foundation, Attachmate,
> etc.?

No.  The linux trademark in the US is held by Linus.  The Linux Trademark 
Institute licenses the trademark to organizations under a free, perpetual, 
worldwide sublicense.  So, even if Linus were to change his mind and try to 
start suing everyone using the trademark, (pigs fly first) it would all be 
thrown out of court.  Additionally, the source code is GPL, so even if in the 
fictional world of Linus taking the trademark elsewhere, you can fork the code 
and call it Morphtkdlfgjfjdsksjfnmvmdkedkfjgjg, and you would be fine.

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/legal/trademark