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trasz requested review of this revision.Jan 5 2022, 8:22 AM
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Ah, found the Linux trademark guidelines: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/the-linux-mark/

  1. For each web page, advertisement, or publication, the first prominent appearance of LINUX should feature the “circle R” character adjacent to the X, as follows: Linux®
  1. At the end of your web page, advertisement, publication or media broadcast, include the following text in a legible font and size: Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

The first is done in this review. I suspect we have a statement for 2 in a boilerplate footer on the doc site (we have https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/trademarks/) but we should add such a mention to the end of this page.

We do have the trademark information for the Handbook itself: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/, click "> trademarks" just below the Copyright, below "FreeBSD Handbook" title. I don't think we need to include the remark in every chapter; I don't see that done anywhere else in the handbook.

IANAL, so I assume that since there's one Linux® early one, removing the (R) everywhere else instead of replacing all with ® is enough of an acknowledgement. Other than that and the 3 nits I spotted, LGTM.

documentation/content/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/_index.adoc
58

Since you're touching this line, maybe be more specific than "overly" (eg, how many are too many? 23? 42?) or get rid of it altogether.

148–149

Maybe "a Linux system using the same CPU architecture", since the handbook instructs to copy the files a few paragraphs below?

299

Since you're touching that area.

IANAL, so I assume that since there's one Linux® early one, removing the (R) everywhere else instead of replacing all with ® is enough of an acknowledgement. Other than that and the 3 nits I spotted, LGTM.

Thanks! I'd prefer to make those fixes later on, in a large-ish manual patch; I've split out this thing here because it's a mechanical change and it will make it easier to review the rest.

Maybe it's worth mentioning that (R) gets rendered by AsciiDoctor as ® as is both outlined here and can be spotted on the rendered output of the existing page.

Maybe it's worth mentioning that (R) gets rendered by AsciiDoctor as ® as is both outlined here and can be spotted on the rendered output of the existing page.

Thanks for this. Please don’t replace (R) with ®.

Maybe it's worth mentioning that (R) gets rendered by AsciiDoctor as ® as is both outlined here and can be spotted on the rendered output of the existing page.

Yep I spotted that after the comment and left a note in the other review https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33738#763236

Thanks for this. Please don’t replace (R) with ®.

Does that also mean the existing ® (in "description:" near the top) should be changed to (R)?

This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.Jan 9 2022, 10:20 AM
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