On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
On 4/27/2015 7:13 AM, Jack Hill wrote:
http://www.openafsfoundation.org/docs/openafs-foundation-ibm-trademark-agreement.pdf
The agreement that was posted to the OpenAFS Foundation web site is not
the "AFS" trademark agreement, it is the "OpenAFS" trademark agreement.
That agreement is specific to the Foundation being permitted to
incorporate using the "OpenAFS" name. The Foundation web site states
that this agreement was between IBM and the original board members and
the rights were then transferred to the Foundation. However, I do not
see anything posted to the site that actually performs that transfer of
rights.
Thanks Jan and Jeffrey for your replies. Keeping this in mind and
re-reading the agreement I found a key sentence, "…to use the Marks as
part of The OpenAFS Foundation name."
The "AFS" trademark agreement is different. It is an agreement that
specifies what protocol requirements exist to use the "AFS" mark (or a
derivative) for software.
Is this agreement still secret? What work needs to be done to get it
published?
Perhaps this is premature, but would OpenAFS consider chaining its name to
avoid such restrictions?
Best,
Jack
