[advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Indiana as the OpenSolaris xxxx distro (was Re: [smf-discuss] Review for 6608098)

[Sara Dornsife]

Herbert Snorrason wrote:
> On 22.10.2007, at 12:21, Martin Bochnig wrote:
>> But shouldn't distributors be permitted (if not required!) to use the
>> brand "OpenSolaris" in (as addition to) their distros names, e.g.
>> "SchilliX OpenSolaris", "Nextenda OpenSolaris" or "MartUX OpenSolaris" ?
>
> Is that even feasible? The trademark isn't attached to the code, 
> because trademark and copyright protections have no real common ground 
> (apart from the specious term 'intellectual property'). A demand could 
> certainly be made in the copyright licence, but that would be a quite 
> significant change...

Use of OpenSolaris wouldn't be a requirement, but a benefit. Derivative 
distributions could use, but don't have to if they chose not to.
Sara