Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756745Ab1DLHHy (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:07:54 -0400 Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.39]:59081 "EHLO smtprelay01.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756659Ab1DLHHx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:07:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4DA3FA7E.2080800@ladisch.de> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:08:46 +0200 From: Clemens Ladisch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harald Welte CC: Lauro Ramos Venancio , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aloisio Almeida , Arnd Bergmann , Waldemar.Rymarkiewicz@tieto.com Subject: Re: [RFC] NFC subsystem prototype References: <20110409130945.GC3248@prithivi.gnumonks.org> <20110412060813.GS9690@prithivi.gnumonks.org> In-Reply-To: <20110412060813.GS9690@prithivi.gnumonks.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: linux-kernel@cl.domainfactory-kunde.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1023 Lines: 24 Harald Welte wrote: > Also, I'm not quite clear what's the situation with regard to the NFC trademark, As far as I can tell, "NFC" itself isn't trademarked; it's used in the ISO standard, and the Wikipedia page mentions several organizations like NFC World, NFC Times, NFC Lab, and www.libnfc.org. (What _is_ trademarked is the "N-Mark": .) > i.e. if it wise to use the trademark. There has been one previous case with > the 'firewire' situation, where firewire is the trademark and IEEE 1394 the name > of the technical specification - and the the Linux subsystem is alled > 'ieee1394'... In recent kernels, the "ieee1394" subsystem has been replaced by the new subsystem named "firewire" (and called "Juju"). Regards, Clemens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/