I think it makes sense to rename GORM to Grails Data going forward.

/Mattias

Den sön 24 aug. 2025 kl 16:00 skrev James Daugherty
<[email protected]>:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> In the recent weekly meeting, we discussed how we have repackaged GORM
> related projects to be prefixed with 'grails-data-' coordinates, but
> we have not made an effort to continue renaming GORM everywhere else.
>
> This thread is to discuss people's thoughts on removing references to
> GORM completely & only referring to Grails Persistence Libraries as
> "Grails Data" going forward.
>
> My thoughts:
> 1. We renamed it because GORM does not match implementations - not all
> implementations are true ORMs anymore.
> 2. We have a trademark on Grails and do not have one on GORM.  This
> would allow us to enforce our brand.
> 3. Go has become significantly more popular and there's a conflicting
> project using 'GORM':  https://github.com/go-gorm/gorm  This project
> has existed since 2013, and due to previous names being not enforced,
> I don't think it's feasible to change at this point.
>
> I'm personally a +1 to only using Grails Data going forward and
> dropping the GORM name.
>
> -James
>

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