[haiku-development] Re: Selecting a non-trademarked name for the Haiku platform
- From: Skar Cat <skarmiglione.sk4r@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:40:43 -0500
I suggest name Chocolat
2010/7/25 Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 23:23, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > -1 for changing that. It took ages for the autotools changes to make it
> to
> > most software packages. Changing things now will be a serious nuisance
> for
> > porters with no real benefit. Fair use of the Haiku name is allowed
> anyway.
> > At least I don't see any serious problem in not changing what system
> > uname() reports in third party distros. Maybe Haiku, Inc. can make a
> > statement what their stance is on the matter.
>
> What about forks of the codebase -- would they be allowed to use
> 'haiku' in uname? Particularly ones that could not be considered
> 'compatible' with Haiku. eg, a fork or distro that provides libm,
> /usr, or any of the other idiosyncrasies from linux/unix/bsd that
> Haiku doesn't follow.
>
> .. that's my personal concern.
>
> --mmadia
>
>
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