[Libre-soc-dev] Finishing off the grant: gigabit crypto router 2021-02-052

[Cesar Strauss]

Hi Luke,

On 04/20/2024 20:04, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> the situation is identical to that of whitequark's trademark
> infringment of M-Labs. ironically it was CALDERWOOD himself
> who both explained it to me (several hours, over several
> weeks) and then explained it to us on various tuesday calls.
> if you recall,he explained very clearly what
> "Trademark aliasing" is.

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

Sorry for making you repeat yourself, I'm being a little slow to make 
the connections. Thank you for your patience.

I hope I'm not causing you much stress. You may also note I'm choosing 
my words so to avoid causing offense to anyone.

I still have some doubt. On the Amaranth Github page, they say "Amaranth 
HDL (previously nMigen)", thus conveying to the reader that they are the 
real original owners of nMigen (tm), having decided to rename it to 
Amaranth.

So, for the sake of argument, there must already be some written 
material, or other available evidence (even if RED made it clear they 
have not done so), where the reader will think: "wait, this VISC (tm) 
seems to be the exact same concept as Simple-V (tm)! It must be that 
they are the real owners of Simple-V (tm), and decided to rename it to 
VISC (tm).". Is that your reasoning?

Thanks,

Cesar