>> Solaris is a TM in the U.S. and many other countries. > > Even in derivative forms? That's unfortunate. I guess *BSDs have somewhat > different situation, since they had no problems producing FreeBSD, OpenBSD, > PC-BSD and the like. BTW, did Stanislaw Lem who invented the name have any > complaints regarding using it as a TM?-)
When distributors (including myself at that time) asked this question on trademark-discuss in 2007, we were not even allowed to call our (Sun-friendly / non__brach-off) ^^distros foo-distro OpenSolaris^^ . Later this marginally changed with Indiana, and there were strict guidelined for compatibility and similarity with the Sun-dictated so called reference distro Indiana. Then one would be allowed to use it, under strict regulations. I am not a lawyer, but I guess it is legally not enforcable for anybody except the trademark-owner, to use this string (or substring) anywhere in the name. Unless - of course - the trademark owner mutually permits this. _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
