> -----Original Message----- > From: James Carlson [mailto:james.d.carlson at sun.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 3:09 PM > To: Ostrovsky, Boris > Cc: Herman, George; ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: RE: [ogb-discuss] Creating a place for AMD-related work > > Ostrovsky, Boris writes: > > > You can certainly start a new community if you feel that's necessary. > > > The process for that is in the consititution, and requires OGB > > > approval, as described in article VII: > > > > > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/ > > > > > > You'll need to work through the issues described in 7.4, including the > > > trademark problem, to get this done. > > > > > > This is interesting, I didn't notice the trademark requirement when I > > first read it. > > > > What about PowerPC, Xen and X Windows communities? These are owned by > > IBM, XenSource (Citrix?) and I think OpenGroup. > > That's a darned good question, but I don't have any clear answer for > those specific groups. I just know what we approved in the > constitution.
Not to mention Solaris itself, trademarked by Sun, and which therefore is (paraphrasing 7.4) owned by an entity outside the OpenSolaris Community. I am really bringing this up to understand whether creating AMD community is even an option based on this restriction. I don't want to create a constitutional crisis ;-) -boris
