All distros built with the distro constructor will automatically and 
unavoidably create distros that contain Sun's opensolaris 
trademarks/branding. This is contrary to the opensolaris brand 
guidelines which state that only Sun's distros can contain this 
branding. Others must use their own branding and might, given their 
content, be able to use the opensolaris trademark with a tagline, e.g. 
'Based on OpenSolaris" or the weaker "uses OpenSolaris technology".

It would seem that maybe a brand package with "uses OpenSolaris 
technology", the weakest legitmate branding that could be used with a 
distro built from the repository, should be in the repository, and that 
the distro constructor might support overriding it with a 
non-repository-resident brand package in its place. This would enable 
Sun to control its branding and interested third parties to create their 
own branding. One-off distro builders would automatically have an distro 
with the weakest tagline trademark used in any distro they build, which 
is desireable according to the trademark guidelines.

This also supposes that all branding would be consolidated into a single 
package, but that's another issue.

Just a thought. Don't let it spoil the long weekend. ;-)

Frank

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