[indiana-discuss] Re: [indiana=discuss] Name of Distro?

[Shawn Walker]

On 20/06/07, Doug Scott <dougs at truemail.co.th> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > On 20/06/07, Simon Phipps <webmink at sun.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jun 21, 2007, at 02:24, Shawn Walker wrote:
> >> > I just think that a project that is supposedly by the community
> >> > (Indiana) should have to follow the same rules as the rest of the
> >> > community.
> >>
> >> I agree with that. But how about if those rules changed? There are a
> >> few boundaries imposed by US and other trademark law, but it's
> >> plausible that we could ask Sun to change the rules.
> >
> > That's my main sticking point with it at the moment. If Indiana is a
> > community project, it should follow the same rules the rest of the
> > community has to follow.
> >
> Shawn,
>    playing by the rules,  Sun own the right by law to call anything they
> want as Solaris or OpenSolaris. No other entity has this right, thus
> they can not use the name. Let just get on with life, and produce code!

Doug, my point is that this is supposed to be a community project, not
a Sun project. Therefore what Sun has the right to do does not apply.
I know you want to produce code, but quite frankly, just as code is
important to you, naming and other issues are important to others.

> It is up to Sun what they want to do with 'their' trademarks. The rule
> is in their favour. Currently I do not see anybody from other
> OpenSolaris  distribution complaining about the issue. Let just move on,
> life is short and talk is too cheap!

See above.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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