On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Tim Bray wrote: > Maybe not. I'm pretty sure it's legally OK to call Solaris Unix, and > OpenSolaris is Solaris. Obviously a lawyer's opinion is required, but I > think it's worth seeking. > > It pisses me off that for a huge number of years, the only software you could > use that had the name "Unix" came from the SCO scum... I would *love* it if > we could use the name.
Me too Tim, and it seems Sun has some rights to some of the UNIX copyrights, from the SCO deal around 2003/2004. It is UNIX for the most part, so having OpenUNIX makes entire sense to me. If distributions became users of OpenUNIX, it seems to make sense. I just don't know if we can use the name or not, IANAL. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
