Return-Path: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org Delivery-Date: Thu Feb 1 04:03:34 2001 Received: from cvs.openbsd.org (IDENT:deraadt@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cvs.openbsd.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f11B3Xb03520; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 04:03:33 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200102011103.f11B3Xb03520@cvs.openbsd.org> To: Tatu Ylonen cc: Markus Friedl , Theo de Raadt cc: provos@openbsd.org cc: deraadt Subject: Re: OpenSSH & the SSH trademark In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 2001 09:40:12 +0200." <200102010740.JAA11697@mystery.acr.fi> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 04:03:33 -0700 From: Theo de Raadt Well, I pretty much expected this. As a result, I have tried to be careful about this. When we started the project, I talked to an intellectual property lawyer about what we needed to protect ourselves, to do the right thing with OpenSSH name, and even went as far as to discover what it would take to challenge your trademark if we needed to, if such an event as this ever occured. If we do receive a letter from your lawyer, you can expect these letters to be published widely on the Internet. I feel that is the traditional way to deal with these issues, as the Internet are the userbase concerned. Is this how you would you like to proceed? Tatu: I greatly respect what you created. SSH is the protocol the internet needs to solve it's problems. But is this really the direction where we need to go?