From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Stein Subject: Re: open source and trademark Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:34:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4526A19B.4020708@redhat.com> References: <20061004173124.D2EE6109990@ws6-4.us4.outblaze.com> <074101c6e803$210bdf90$0202a8c0@Violet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <074101c6e803$210bdf90$0202a8c0@Violet> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Steven Hand Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, alex@vasilevsky.name List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Steven Hand wrote: > >> In my opinion this is similar to the issue that Debian had with >> Mozilla browser >> trademark discussion(http://lwn.net/Articles/118268/). Our philosophy on >> using open source software is very much in alignment with the Debian Free >> Software Guidelines >> (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines). I don't >> want to bore everyone on this mailing list with Virtual Iron >> guidelines for open >> source software usage, but the most important item to us is free >> redistribution, >> without any hindrance. We take this approach with all of the open >> source software >> that we create and release to the community, pure GPL, with no >> hindrance of any sort. > > Xen is distributed under the GPL. At any point you can do anything you > want with the > code (use it, modify it, encrypt it, freely redistribute it, put it on a > CD or a website or > a t-shirt, etc, etc, etc). > >> I do agree you with you that there is a naming issue. > > Exactly. > > There's a well-defined notion of what is "Xen" - the software built > openly by this > community. > > As long as that's the only thing that's _called_ "Xen", we'll be fine. If only everything was as simple as using the term Linux. Given internal (and external) concerns with our upcoming inclusion of a hypervisor-based on a popular open source project, we're considering using a neutral reference: 'CNH' - Common Neutral Hypervisor I hope this is an acceptable term for others with similar issues. Brian