Re: [Xen-devel] open source and trademark

["Steven Hand" <steven.hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.


cheers,

S.



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