Important Legal Information Regarding Haiku Inc.
Jun 22, 2004 21:51 UTC, by Chris Simmons, Senior Journalist
From the it-represents department...

I spotted this over at beunited.org and thought it important enough to transcribe here, verbatim, with a little extra clarity from me at the end. This press release explains the legal background surrounding Haiku Inc. and the relationship that beunited.org and Haiku Inc. have with each other.
 
The press release, as follows:
 
Haiku Inc. is the name used to register the incorporation of the Haiku-OS non-profit organization in the state of New York, USA. beunited.org and Haiku Inc. have agreed to partner to use Haiku-OS, or simply Haiku, as a reference platform for OSBOS standards.
 
Haiku will be used as the reference platform for OSBOS and OSBOS distributions because it is open, the most complete, and compatible OSBOS project today to represent the OSBOS standards. All other OSBOS project are fully supported by beunited.org with all services and standards voting privilages. 
 
Haiku is not the OSBOS standard, rather, it is currently a representation of the standard that beunited.org can effectively distribute to its members as a free gift under the community membership plan. All current members of beunited.org are under this plan. As an added bonus to our members the distribution will also include Sun's J2SE Java platform, Mozilla, and all other applications that are not part of Haiku.
 
See our Developer section for more details.