Re: The name Freetalk is already in use

On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:02:58 Benjamin Caplan wrote:
> Marco A. Calamari wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 13:09 -0500, Ian Clarke wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Matthew Toseland 
> >>         
> >>         Every reasonably interesting name is already in use. :|
> >>         
> >>         Suggestions for renaming Freetalk are welcome as far as I am
> >>         concerned.
> >> 
> >> We should stick with "Freetalk" unless someone comes up with a clearly
> >> better name that isn't taken.
> >> 
> >> The "freetalk" software you mention is not high-profile, and I think we are placing
> >>  an excessive restriction on ourselves if we must find an absolutely unique name.
> > 
> > This appear as a licence violation; is it really necessary? 
> > Freenet need absolutely a clearly already taken name? 
> > In this case I suppose that someone can politely ask the previous
> >  art authors ....
> 
> Names aren't generally copyrightable, and trademarks only apply to a
> limited domain. Unless the existing Freetalk is anonymous forum software
> (it appears to be an IM client?), I think we should be okay.
> 
> IANAL.
> 
> How about WaterBoards, since it's a bulletin board system designed to
> protect against rubberhose cryptography?

ROFL.

_______________________________________________
Tech mailing list
[email protected]
http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
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=f1Yu
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----