FWIW, Microsoft does not list Kerberos as a Microsoft Corporation
trademark
(http://www.microsoft.com/library/toolbar/3.0/trademarks/en-us.mspx),
although they reserve any IP rights they may have established in their
product names.
Cheers,
Jennifer
Enrique Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
12/27/2004 09:48 PM
Please respond to general
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Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> 5) Kerberos is a trademark of MIT. We cannot legally distribute
> software under that name.
I disagree.
1) I find no record that MIT has a trademark on Kerberos. The USPTO
Trademark Electronic Search System shows efforts by MIT to trademark
Kerberos in the early 90's were abandoned. Published articles up until
the late 90's may claim a trademark by MIT, but this is not the case.
2) There are no trademarks by anyone else on Kerberos.
3) Major commercial distributions freely name their products Kerberos,
although prepended with their corporation's name, eg:
Microsoft Kerberos
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/secauthn/security/microsoft_kerberos.asp
JCSI Kerberos
http://www.wedgetail.com/jcsi/kerberos/FAQ.html
-enrique
> It is the responsibility of all Apache projects to search for and verify
> compliance with trademark law prior to release of products that might be
> considered an infringement.
>
> ....Roy
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