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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Kermit and Disney...
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Date: 29 Aug 89 22:15:47 GMT
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On Tue, 29 Aug 89 12:35:33 GMT you said:
>file transfer program goes, a footnote from pg. 3 of Frank da Cruz's 'Kermit:
>A File Transfer Protocol':
>
>    '...When BYTE magazine was preparing our 1984 Kermit article for
>publication
>    they suggested we contact Henson Associates Inc. for permissions to say
>that
>    we did indeed name the protocol after Kermit the Frog.  Permission was
>    kindly granted, and now the real story can be told.'
>
>I'll assume Disney can't retract the permission.

Nope, especially if it's in writing (as I presume it is).  There's not much
chance of commercial confusion between a green frog and a file transfer
protocol (even if the results of file transfers sometimes turn people green :-)

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