On 04/27/2015 01:13 PM, Jack Hill wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
1. OpenAFS has an obligation to provide backward compatibility with IBM
AFS 3.6 rxkad as long as it wishes to use the name.
According to my reading of the AFS trademark agreement posted on the
OpenAFS Foundation website:
http://www.openafsfoundation.org/docs/openafs-foundation-ibm-trademark-agreement.pdf
there is no mention of any conditions associated with the use of the
mark. How am I misunderstanding the agreement?
Per my reading, this only covers the founding committee members use of
AFS in the "OpenAFS Foundation" name (which apparently at the time of
signing had not been incorporated yet):
IBM hereby grants [..] right and license [..] to use the Marks as part of The
OpenAFS Foundation name.
[..]
Members may not sublicense or assign any of the rights [..] except [..] to the
newly incorporated OpenAFS Foundation, once that entity is formed.
In other words, this seems not to be the agreement that allows OpenAFS
to be called OpenAFS.
Regards,
jan
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