On 4/27/2015 10:42 AM, Jack Hill wrote: > > Is this agreement still secret? What work needs to be done to get it > published?
The Foundation Board will have to answer this question. The Gatekeepers have been operating on a gentleman's agreement for many years. This agreement is not specific to OpenAFS. Other organizations distributing products that implement the AFS protocol can enter into a contract with IBM. Your File System, Inc. has done so to cover the AuriStor File System. > Perhaps this is premature, but would OpenAFS consider chaining its name > to avoid such restrictions? There is a very long thread from August/September 2012 on this mailing list which touched on the pros and cons of doing so. In summary, the only benefit to changing the name is if doing so permits implementing something that cannot be done otherwise. The limiting factor on implementing new functionality is not the terms of the AFS trademark license. It is everything else. Jeffrey Altman
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