Ostrovsky, Boris 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 ;-) > > The Xen one is a known issue. PowerPC and X Windows are news to me, or at least, I hadn't considered them before. It seems unreasonably stupid to not be able to utilise these trademarks. I would say if the usage of the trademarks within an OpenSolaris Community Group name does not violate the terms of use for the trademark as set by the trademark holder, then we (the OGB) should be okay with that.
I'd be up for sponsoring this as an amendment to the constitution if necessary. I'm not sure what else we could call the PowerPC community, or the X Windows community. cheers, steve
