On 16/10/2007, Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> wrote: > 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.
That seems like the best solution although it does place someone here in the uncomfortable position of ensuring that the conditions of use for a trademark are followed. -- 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
