* Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-26 21:16]: > > > * Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-26 11:19]: > >> The community has accepted the name "Polaris" as the distro name. > > > > Cool. But I need to ask a question: is someone likely to need or > > want to trademark this use of Polaris? (If so, it's not useful as a > > project name for opensolaris.org; although admittedly much blander, I > > suggest "ppc-dev".) > > A minor concern at this point.
I apologize, but for my job, it's not. If a project wants to use opensolaris.org resources it needs to not have a known current or pending trademark conflict. (In fact, I would encourage any folks looking at building a commercial distribution to select a name and begin their trademark work...) More generally, if the plan isn't to use this site's facilities, then project proposals boil down to agreeing to be bound by the OpenSolaris Governing Board resolutions, its approved development processes, and its arbitration of disputes, both technical and social. That may or may not suit every potential effort build on OpenSolaris technology. An alternative would be to propose text for the distribution, which can be added to the Distributions page: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/distributions/ I don't really see any problem with adding a distribution there, even in its earliest and most experimental phases. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
