On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:52:39 +0100 Erik Skultety <eskul...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > diff --git a/hw/vfio/display.c b/hw/vfio/display.c > > new file mode 100644 > > index 0000000000..3e997f8a44 > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/hw/vfio/display.c > > @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ > > +/* > > + * display support for mdev based vgpu devices > > + * > > + * Copyright Red Hat, Inc. 2017 > > Just curious here since I don't really know close to nothing about the legal > stuff, but isn't vGPU NVIDIA's trademark - [1,2,3] (especially [1]) would > suggest so. Therefore, I'm just curious whether we can mention this as we > please, especially when this should also work for Intel, which uses a > different > name for the technology. On the other hand, grepping through kernel modules, > there's a lot of vGPU misuse in Intel's context, so I guess everything's fine. > Again, I'm just curious since I have no clue about this stuff. > > [1] https://www.geforce.com/en_GB/gfecnt/support/NVIDIA-Legal-Notices > [2] https://trademarks.justia.com/859/42/vgpu-85942337.html > [3] https://trademarks.justia.com/859/42/nvidia-grid-85942341.html IANAL, but the official trademark trackers all seem to indicate "VGPU" was filed for, but abandoned, so perhaps your link [1] above is stale data (note that the copyright date on that is 2014 and the trademark abandonment dates are late 2014/early 2015). I'm not sure that it matters either way though. Thanks, Alex
