[ug-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Sponsor Project Indiana

[Sara Dornsife]

michelle olson wrote:
> Hi Sara,
>
> Your common practice is fine, let's take it a step further. When I go 
> to fedora web site 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines and read about 
> the trademark usage, I get information that makes sense. This is not 
> the case when I go to http://opensolaris.org/os/trademark/ I get 
> information that is out of date, promises not kept and a message to 
> 'stay tuned'.
>
> Will we be fixing that? 

Yes

> Will parties be authorized to use the trademark? 

To a point. The TM will always be protected. Not only because it belongs 
to Sun, but because it is the right thing to do.

> Under what conditions? 

Let's open that up. I can act as an intermediary with Sun on this. What 
are we looking for?

> Will there be guidelines? 

Definitely. I will reread the Fedora ones for a baseline. If there are 
any other sources anyone thinks are good, I'd be happy to reference them 
as well.

> How about a mailing list for questions? 

That's a great idea. The marketing community can sponsor. 
Trademarks at opensolaris.org?

> These details and information about how any of these rules are going 
> to change in support of the new effort is the critical information 
> that we need to provide.

Agreed

>
> Thanks,
> Michelle
>
> Sara Dornsife wrote:
>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>> Patrick Finch <Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> Some confusion for some people perhaps, but it is possible to 
>>>> communicate a change.  For the last 2 years I have been dealing 
>>>> with the confusion that "OpenSolaris" is not a bootable OS.
>>>>
>>>> I can understand that there might be objections to naming a distro 
>>>> "OpenSolaris" for other reasons, but I don't accept that the risk 
>>>> of confusing people should disqualify the idea.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Do you like to recommend to use the name "diesel" as brand name for
>>> diesel oil product?
>>>   
>>
>> I don't know about that, but I do know that when I go to Fedora or 
>> Ubuntu or OpenOffice or Netbeans or Eclipse or PostgreSQL or SugarCRM 
>> (and so on), I do download something by the same name. It is common 
>> practice and expected.
>>
>>> There are other similar cases. People just did learn that "OpenSolaris"
>>> is not a product name but the name for a software base.
>>>
>>> Jörg
>>>
>>>   
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