[indiana-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Joerg Schilling]

Sara Dornsife <Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM> wrote:

> > As other distros cannot use the brand name, it would be bad if Sun used it.
> >   
>
> We have been discussing TM guidelines and usage scenarios for the past 
> two weeks. We are working to create NEW guidelines. Yes, the current 
> (past) guidelines have been restrictive. I'd like to see you work with 
> the rest of us on how to create new guidelines that work better for all 
> distributions.

We had this discussion long ago and we decided that it was a bad idea to allow
a distribution to use the name OpenSolaris. I do not see anything that would 
change the constraints here.

Jörg

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