On Saturday 25 November 2006 19:47, Timothy Miller wrote: > On 11/25/06, Daniel Rozsnyó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would use another combination of words: > > > > Open Graphics Developer's Board 1 (OGD1) > > Copyright (c) 2006, Traversal Technology, LLC > > > > or > > > > Open Graphics Development Board 1 (OGD1) > > Copyright (c) 2006, Traversal Technology, LLC > > I prefer "Development," but you could convince me otherwise. > > > and: > > > > FPGA Prototyping Board > > Copyright (c) 2006, Traversal Technology, LLC > > > > (because we're not developing an FPGA, the first one will be > > distributed to the OGP developers and the second one can be sold as > > a fully commercial product) > > Which is for developers and which is the commercial product?
I think it would be confusing if we had the same hardware under two different names. The board is the board. What it's used for is another thing. I like the word "Prototyping", but ISTR Timothy saying that some people apparently wanted to use it as a video card directly in their products. So if it's suitable for more than prototyping, then we shouldn't limit it to that by giving it that name. As for the "Graphics" part, obviously that's what it's aimed towards, but you can do other stuff with it as well via the expansion connector. Perhaps FPGA/Graphics Development Board OGD1 As for the copyright notice, there's a copyright notice on the image, and that's what you're claiming copyright over. It should read "Copyright © 2006 Traversal Technology, LLC". That's the easy part. AFAIK, you can't claim copyright on hardware (but you can on its design). > Also, include this option: > > OGD1 FPGA Prototyping Board > Copyright .... > > This way, we still have the brand name in there. > > Y'all fiddle with it for a while, and I'll let you know if I hate any > of the suggestions. :) There is another, legal, issue. Do you remember that Intel, after introducing MMX, insisted that MMX did _not_ stand for Multi Media eXtensions? Absolutely positively not, it was just three random letters? IIRC, that was because you can't trademark acronyms. So we'll have to decide whether we call this thing OGD1 (with no meaning attached) or Open Graphics Development Board 1 (with OGD1 unprotected). In my above proposal, we would use OGD1, without any official meaning, as the trademark. We would refer to the thing by the generic name "FPGA/Graphics Development Board" combined with the trademark "OGD1", to help keep it from getting diluted. Lourens
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