On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:54:09PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >James E Wilson writes: > >> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 17:48, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> > All true, but I want to note that the preferred non-GNU name is >> > sourceware.org. >> >> What about the trademark status? Last I heard, the trademark holder had >> asked us to stop using the name. That is when and why the machine got >> renamed away from sourceware.org. I have been careful not to use the >> sourceware name since. The sourceware.org name was kept for >> convenience, but wasn't supposed to be advertised. Did this trademark >> issue ever get resolved? > >Back in 1997, they asked Cygnus to stop using the term sourceware to >describe Cygnus's products. I can't remember whether Cygnus changed >the machine name from sourceware.cygnus.com to sources.cygnus.com, or >whether the change happened after the Red Hat purchase.
It happened after the Red Hat purchase. cgf
