[haiku-development] Selecting a non-trademarked name for the Haiku platform
- From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:44:39 +0000
Hello,
As you know, Haiku is a trademark not everyone is allowed to use.
Thismeans someone building its own version of Haiku may not be able to
use the name anywhere in the system. While that's fine for pictures and
logos, it's more problematic in the case of uname, because it is used
to detect the system by things like autotools. If someone is to build a
slightly derived version of haiku, he should have a name to use there,
and that would rather be a standard one so there are not too much
variants floating around.
For example, Mac OS X uname says 'Darwin', even in the official builds
from Apple. This allows most software to also work on the open-source
variant of darwin.
I suggest we use the name 'walter' here. It has been floating around
for some time so it would be nice to give it an official status ;)
We have two choices : either we use it also in the official builds, or
we keep Haiku for ourselves and enable walter for 3rd-parties. I think
using the name ourselves would be better, as using it would then imply
some compatibility with haiku, while systems going away too much would
have to change it when they start needing diffferent settings in the
autotools, for example.
what do you think about it ?
--
PulkoMandy
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