On 16/10/2007, Ostrovsky, Boris <Boris.Ostrovsky at amd.com> wrote: > > > > -----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 ;-)
X Window System is a trademark of MIT (or was at one time). It is important to remember that some of these communities were created before the constitution was ratified. I guess you could consider them "grandfathered" in, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't change as part of a cleanup process. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
