[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, 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.
>
> Shawn, you are correct. I would rather produce code than getting into a
> debate about naming :) Can we debate in 'C' or 'D'?

The inclination of most developers is to code now and deal with the
processes needed later. While I'm certainly not accusing anyone here
of doing that, I'm happy to see little pieces of the puzzle coming
together in a semi-organised rather than haphazard fashion.

> That said I still do no think anybody other than Sun can or should call
> anything OpenSolaris. Saying that a distribution is 'based' on
> OpenSolaris code/standards is probably a better definition.

Which is exactly what I was trying to point out. If Indiana is a
community project, not a Sun project, it cannot be called
"OpenSolaris."

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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