[advocacy-discuss] FW: Wider Advocacy Initiatives

[Alan Perry]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:

>Siobhan P. Lynch wrote:
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>>I'm not sure it should, per se. I think maybe splitting the developer
>>and guidance communities off from Sun, but allowing the "OpenSolaris"
>>trademark to be owned by a non-profit steering group with loose ties to
>>Sun might work, or Sun working out a free "licensing" of the trademark
>>to this Non-Profit. 
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>Having discussed this with various Sun VP's and lawyers lately, I think
>this is unfortunately not an option, due to the close link of "Solaris"
>and "OpenSolaris" in naming and thus in trademark law - had we named the
>community something that had no trace of Solaris in it's name, then the
>trademark would be easier to separate, but since Sun isn't going to give
>up control of the Solaris trademark, we're kinda stuck here.
>
>Sun is offering to work with the community (specifically the Advocacy
>project set up a few months ago) to work out guidelines for licensing
>other distros to use the trademark, but Sun will still have ownership
>and control of it.
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I have mentioned this before and I will mention it again.

I would like implement a change in rEFIt (an Intel Mac EFI boot manager) 
so that the Solaris boot partitions are not identified by the Linux 
penguin, but there is no suitable mark for me to use.  The space that I 
have to work with is a 100 (or so) pixel square.  I have been told I 
cannot change the OpenSolaris wordmark or its orientation and it has to 
look good.  That just doesn't work in the space available.

So, I am faced with the coice of leaving the Linux penguin or making up 
a completely new logo that does not violate Sun's trademark but still 
identifies the partition as a Solaris partition.

Did I mention that I give OpenSolaris demos on this MacBook?

alan