Le Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:48:39AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: > > >according to Wikipedia, "The first use of the term in public was by > >Jesse James Garrett in February 2005." EMBOSSes AJAX is much older, so I > >am quite reluctant to ask upstream to rename this library. > > Well, the problem is that it does not really work like a "first comes > first serves" principle. I would not consider it reasonable if the > EMBOSS project would try to get a trademark (or whatever the right > term is here) on Ajax and ask all those that choose this technology > to rename their stuff. It is just not clever if you are using a name > that is commonly used for a very different thing. So giving upstream > a _hint_ would be quite reasonable (in their own interest to avoid > confusion).
Hi Andreas, I will mention this when dealing with the second library issue of EMBOSS, the use of the latest plplot libray instead of the eplplot one. (about non-free file) > I would stretch the time scale for EMBOSS a little bit more (while > making absolutely sure that no non-free stuff would go into an > official release for sure). Ok, thanks for your answer. In the meantime I have been provided the latest professional email adress of the upstream author of the non-free file. I hope that we can solve the problem in a reasonnable time frame. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
