Naming of Cygwin/XFree86 components

'Christopher Faylor ' cgf@redhat.com
Sun Apr 29 08:45:00 GMT 2001


On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 07:53:53AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> I agree with Chris, keep using XWIN and do not worry about trademark.
>Startnet does not own it.  Thier product is X-Win32, which is different,
>there is X-WinPro and XWIN is an abrivation of XWIN.  I did a brief search
>long time ago before naming executable xwin.  I am not an attorney but I
>think using name XWIN is safe, as Chris mentioned.

I was almost tempted to suggest cygxwin but the "cyg" prefix is sort of
deprecated these days, so it wouldn't make much sense to go in that
direction.

cgf



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