John Plocher wrote: > [moving this discussion over to trademark-policy-dev] > > Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: > >>> Finally, this sounds like you do not want anybody else to create their >>> own distribution? >>> >> It seems to be a real turning-point for OpenSolaris community. >> Martin has a point...how should we interpret your post ? >> > > How about "In a charitable manner that presumes good intent?" > > For me, this is all boiling down to a very simple decision tree: > > If you want to call your distro /.*OpenSolaris.*/, it > needs to follow the rules for using the OpenSolaris > trademark. > > If you don't want to use the OpenSolaris trademark on > your distro, then you can do whatever you wish. Period. > End of discussion. Schillix, Nexenta, Belinix and Martux, > as well as SX and SXDR all continue as is, completely > unchanged and indifferent to this conversation. > > i.e., this is a trademark usage issue, not a community > membership, community endorsement, download-page-hosting > or who can use what bits one. >
This hits it right on the head John. I thought that we were working toward a trademark usage policy which will allow broader, although still protected, usage of the OpenSolaris trademark by those who qualify for it and want to use it. Having a starting point to determine compatibility, Indiana, makes that possible. > My understanding of trademark law is minimal - and growing > less every minute; IANAL. I think it says the following > about the rules for using a trademark: > > Sun (the trademark owner) needs to ensure that the > OpenSolaris (and by reduction, the Solaris) trademarks > are adequately protected under a cross-section of > international trademark law. Without that confidence, > Sun's executives can't legally allow use of the trademark > since it is a major Sun asset. > > The key protective steps seem to be: > (1) A clear usage policy that > (2) Has a quality control metric that is > (3) Administered by Sun (although this can be with > strong community direction) and > (4) Can be policed effectively > > I hope we are all in agreement so far. If not, then we > might as well go home, since those points seem pretty > non-negotiable. > > As they say, the devil is in the details. Somebody needs to > create a usage policy and there needs to be a quality control > metric to make sure the value of the brand is not diluted.. > Hey, that's the Trademark and Branding Project over at > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/branding/ > > OK, what should that usage policy look like? Please come > over to the branding project (trademark-policy-dev) and help > us - it promises to be an interesting discussion. > > -John > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/attachments/20071025/2b2242f9/attachment.html>
