On 2 February 2016 at 13:39, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 12:53:53 +0000, sebb wrote: >> >> On 2 February 2016 at 12:11, Ate Douma <a...@douma.nu> wrote: >>> >>> On 2016-02-02 12:43, Gilles wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 10:06:40 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Please select your top choice among the following suggested names >>>>> for the new [math]-based TLP. All are welcome and encouraged to >>>>> respond. This POLL will be open for 72 hours, at which time two >>>>> tallies will be presented: one among those who have volunteered for >>>>> the new PMC and a second among all respondents. Hopefully, one name >>>>> will emerge as consensus winner. If not, I will kick off another >>>>> runoff poll among the top choices. Please respond with your top >>>>> choice for the name. >>>>> >>>>> AjaMa >>>>> Epsilon >>>>> Erdos >>>>> Euclid >>>>> Euler >>>>> Gauss >>>>> JAML >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> This choice: >>>> >>>>> Math >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> can potentially lead to legal and/or technical problems: >>>> * name of the JAR will basically be "math.jar", easily clashing >>>> with local toolboxes (also named without much imagination) >>> >>> >>> >>> apache-math-x.y.z.jar > > > Just, this is not the current naming: > "bare" name -> bare.jar
Depends on the project. Abdera, ACE, Ambari all use apache- prefixes, as do many others. Others don't. >>> >>> will fix the name clashing trivially. >>> >>> >>>> * name of the project will obviously be impossible to protect >> >> >> The name of the project will be >> >> Apache Math >> >> which *is* protectable. > > > Then if unique names or acronyms that are easy to identify are no > valuable arguments, we could have had > > ASL Possibly; that would depend on the outcome of a name search. > > It's shorter than "Math", if that is really what people like in it > (since no other good points were made AFAICT). > >> This is no different from many other ASF projects which use common >> names that already have meanings. >> >> There are very few ASF projects whose bare names are protectable/protected > > > Is it a good reason to add another one? > > Having a not already used and not likely to be used name can prevent time > wasted later in trying to enforce the protection. That's not the only work that would need to be done. I agree it would be easier to enforce the name if it is sufficiently unique. But enforcement is only a part of the workload - the project must spend time checking whether there are misuses of the name. That work is not necessary if the name is only used in conjunction with the Apache prefix. > > Gilles > > >>>> >>>>> MathBlocks >>>>> MathComponents (or Math Components) >>>>> Mathelactica >>>>> MathModules >>>>> Megginson >>>>> modMath >>>>> Nash >>>>> Newton >>>>> Pythagoras >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The second objection of course holds for many names in the list. >>>> We'd better follow Bertrand's suggestion. >>>> >>>> >>>> Gilles > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
