On Feb 16, 2008, at 22:03, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > 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.
In an effort to avoid the inevitable current issues, I casually explored this when the OpenSolaris community was initially proposed and found that first, someone would have to license it from The Open Group, and secondly because it is a high-value trademark it would need all the same sort of protection as Solaris. As ever IANAL and this is not advice. S.
