On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 21:01 +0300, Firat Can Basarir wrote: > Hello, > > I am not a big fan of distributions myself. But the most important > thing about free software is independence. I don't want to be > controlled by any organization and, frankly, I don't wouldn't want to > use an OS that is almost impossible to be forked. <snip> In Haiku's case, a trademark policy would applies to the product name and logo, not code. So relax: as long as the code is released under a MIT license, your freedom to fork source code would not curtailed in any way by any trademark policy. Jorge/aka Koki