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?

Seriously, we'll probably just call it "Message Boards" or "Chat" or something, on the main menu.

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