Re: looking for a new name

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On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Roland Weber <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Angie,
>
>  Should this go to legal discuss to see what the lawyers say?
>>
>
> The lawyers rarely post on legal-discuss. The list is
> mostly populated by regular non-lawyer people with an
> interest in the legal minefield, like myself. It's not
> a place to discuss (non)similarity of names, and I'm
> pretty sure that no lawyer would enter the discussion.
>
>  It seems there are a few who are unsure about the name but others who
>> don't see a similarity.  Plus, as Craig mentioned, Pica is a very normal
>> word to use in the line of photo galleries.
>>
>
> Well, the options I see are:
>
> A. enter incubation as PicaGalley and...
> A1. try to keep the name and hope that nobody objects
>    on graduation
> A2. seek a statement from Google that they don't
>    object to our usage of the name
> A3. change the name later before graduation
> or
> B. settle on a new name that doesn't raise any concerns
>
> If you're _really_ attached to PicaGalley, you could
> go for A2. But I doubt that you'll get that kind of
> statement from Google. A1 is a poor strategy, and
> graduation might even be delayed not because of the
> name, but because we didn't address the concerns, at
> the time when they were raised, in "The Apache Way".
> That is by seeking the broadest possible consensus.
>
> It's not like we have an existing OSS project with
> many users that would have to learn a new name.
> We're starting from scratch, and the preliminary
> name has only been used for three weeks internally.
> (as "internal" as discussions on public mailing
> lists can be :-) So my recommendation clearly is B.
>
>
> Additional suggestions on general@ by Martijn were
> "Snapshot" and "Shutter". Unfortunately, I don't
> know a catchy translation for the german word
> "Schuhkarton" (shoe box), which in reality is a
> much more common place than an album for keeping
> physical photographies :-)


Shoebox would be a fine name. :-)

--
Martin Cooper



>
> cheers,
>  Roland
>
>
>  Pigalle
>>>
>>>> Phos Librarius
>>>> LibraLux
>>>> PhosBiblioteka
>>>> BiblioPic
>>>> PicAndMix
>>>> PhoGal
>>>> PhoGa
>>>> Foga
>>>> SnapLib
>>>> SnapStore
>>>> PicStore
>>>> SnapShow
>>>> PicShow
>>>> PicLib
>>>>
>>>
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