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Subject: Re: Devlinks.  Code.  (Dcache abuse?)
To: neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au (Neil Brown)
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> As I understand trademarks, they are granted for a particular context.
> There is no conflict between "Dove" as a brand name for soap, "Dove"
> as a brand name for chocolate, and "Dove" as used by bird watchers in
> their taxonomy.

We have already had a vendor threaten legal action if we didn't change the
name of a file system before merging it with the kernel.

Alan
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