[haiku-development] Re: Selecting a non-trademarked name for the Haiku platform
- From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:18:35 -0700
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Actually, it becomes their problem if software that reads uname fails to work.
If they choose to leave their uname output consistent with Haiku while
breaking compatibility and changing all other aspects of the OS to
read "Not Haiku" - then they have failed their users and developers -
not us.
Look at it this way: Does it really hurt Haiku's image if some OS that
clearly isn't Haiku (all branding removed) pretends to be Haiku and
fails?
- Urias
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