[OpenAFS] IBM/OpenAFS trademark agreement - available anywhere?

Jan Iven jan.iven@cern.ch
Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:55:41 +0100


Dear all, I've recently come across

https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2014-September/020004.html 
  :
> [..] Unfortunately, the no-more-des.html announcement was before the
> issues with IBM and the use of the Trademark were encountered. My
> understanding is that the agreement requires support for the rxkad
> protocol in shipped binaries and the provisioning of the kaserver as
> a build option.  Failure to include rxkad support means the
> product/protocol cannot be called "AFS" or "AFS compatible". Failure
> to provide the "kaserver" and related functionality as a build option
> is a requirement of use of the "OpenAFS" name.

Would the text of this agreement be available anywhere (in a way that 
can be referenced, i.e without NDA)? My interest would be to see how far 
this agreement limits technical evolution for OpenAFS in the medium-term 
future.

(I have seen 
http://www.openafsfoundation.org/docs/openafs-foundation-ibm-trademark-agreement.pdf 
- but that seems to cover only the use of "OpenAFS" in the foundation name).

Thanks in advance,
jan