On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Robert Millan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:21:08PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: >> >> Yes I don't think that'd be a problem. >> >> One last question and then I think I'll be satisfied. Is the opensolaris >> project a complete fork from solaris? Just to make sure it makes sense >> to use kopensolaris instead of ksolaris, but I guess the kernel's uname >> output might be the definitive answer to that. > > On OpenSolaris, uname says "SunOS", and config.guess makes > "i386-pc-solaris2.11" from that. It would be foolish of them to change > uname output or triplet for a system that has the same ABI. > > Though technically, AFAIK Solaris and OpenSolaris are not the same thing (I > think it's similar to StarOffice and OpenOffice). And if we distribute a > kernel it's certainly going to be the kernel of OpenSolaris and not the > kernel of Solaris.
I think the situation is similar to OpenJDK vs Sun JDK. 95% or so of the code-base is open-source but OpenJDK implements the remaining 5% that Sun didn't/couldn't release. Since we would be using sources only from the "OpenSolaris" code-base, it makes sense to me to identify the triplet as such. We can also easily patch the uname(2) call to return whatever we want. > > I think it would be Fair Use of their trademarks to refer to it as the former, > but I'm not sure about the latter. Then again, I doubt trademark stuff is > very > relevant when it comes to strings whose main purpose is to be parsed and only > rarely read by a human. Here's the trademark policy: http://opensolaris.org/os/trademark/. IANAL, but from what I can tell, it's only an issue when naming the distribution. For example, Nexenta couldn't be called GNU/OpenSolaris (officially), but they can (and do) describe themselves as using the OpenSolaris kernel with the GNU/Ubuntu/Debian user-space. -- David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
