On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Troy Benjegerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > Have the USENIX association lawyers been made aware they are accepting funds > in a manner which may expose them to trademark litigation from IBM? Either > this trademark IS an issue, and blocks creation of a foundation, and ANYONE > that accepts funds for doing work on 'OpenAFS' is potentially liable, or it's > not.
You asserting that doesn't make it true. > Is there a statement to what ends a donation to the Usenix openafs fund would > be used for? Any purpose the Elders believe will further the ends of OpenAFS. Given the low amount of money involved it has been things like - procuring a 64 bit intel machine for a Linux port when such things were rare - subsidizing (or guaranteeing against) cost overruns for AFS workshops -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
