Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 26, 2007 09:40 PM
The rebuttal on handhelds.org reads a little questionable. It's at least obvious that they rather resort to threatening instead of just following their own suggestions (rename project). It's not entirely clear what the advantage is if the now two projects had different names. But I guess handhelds.org just wants to get a free ride on someone elses work and enjoy the fruits of an open source projects generated following.
If they seriously wanted to have possible forks of their supposed? project renamed, they should have choosen a different license. The GNU GPL doesn't provide that. It's handhelds.org very own pity if they didn't choose e.g., the Artistic license, when they started it (which is the questionable crux of this whole discussion, of course). There is no such project renaming rule in the GNU GPL, nor for quarreled open source projects in general. And CHISELED-BY TRADEMARK REGISTRATIONS and SCO-like threatening won't provide it either.
Again, if they want to separate themselves, it was still up to handhelds.org to choose a new name. No problem there. It's probably just that HH-Inc isn't really a<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.org ???
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 26, 2007 09:40 PMIt's not entirely clear what the advantage is if the now two projects had different names. But I guess handhelds.org just wants to get a free ride on someone elses work and enjoy the fruits of an open source projects generated following.
If they seriously wanted to have possible forks of their supposed? project renamed, they should have choosen a different license. The GNU GPL doesn't provide that. It's handhelds.org very own pity if they didn't choose e.g., the Artistic license, when they started it (which is the questionable crux of this whole discussion, of course).
There is no such project renaming rule in the GNU GPL, nor for quarreled open source projects in general. And CHISELED-BY TRADEMARK REGISTRATIONS and SCO-like threatening won't provide it either.
Again, if they want to separate themselves, it was still up to handhelds.org to choose a new name. No problem there. It's probably just that HH-Inc isn't really a<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.org ???
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