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

[Shawn Walker]

On 20/06/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > On 20/06/07, Sara Dornsife <Sara.Dornsife at sun.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Though I also like the point you're making too. Having a catchy name
> >> is a
> >> > good thing for spreading awareness.
> >>
> >> Calling it OpenSolaris would be a good thing for building awareness of
> >> OpenSolaris :)
> >
> > But rather unfair because the community was told they couldn't name
> > their distribution that.
>
> I remember discussion on this point, but don't remember the community
> ever actually asking and getting rejected - can you point out when that
> happened?

I don't believe it has been asked for because it has been made very
clear from the beginning about what uses for the OpenSolaris trademark
were permitted -- very limited.

See this FAQ entry:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/trademark_faq/#use-opensolaris

If I remember right, it took Sun months before we could even get
acceptable use terms for the button and banner images!

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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