Naming of Cygwin/XFree86 components
Suhaib Siddiqi
ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Sun Apr 29 04:57:00 GMT 2001
> I do not know if anyone owns a trademark on the name XWin, but I would
> certainly agree that the name XWin could too easily be confused with a
> competing product named X-Win32.
Not really an issue IMO. Xwin is the standard name of the binary for an
X-Server.
"Xfree86" is the name of the product. And there is no confusion on that
:].
> To avoid potential legal squabbles, which I am not willing to
> subject myself
> to, I am suggesting that we change the names of the aforementioned
> Cygwin/XFree86 components before we attract any undesirable attention.
This would be a bad move. anything linked to -lXwin would break. That's
what standards are for. (ie libc/libm).
Rob
No it will not break libXWin.a is compiled in hw/xwin and nothing else is
linked to it.
However it is not necessary to start a discussion on changing name. I name
the execuable XWIN.exe for the reasons Chris and Robert explain, and we are
safe.
Suhaib
> I hereby declare the topic of renaming open for discussion :)
>
> Please keep suggested new names to yourself, to avoid a
> flamefest, until we,
> as a project, have decided whether we will rename any
> components at all.
>
> Thanks in advance for any input and/or comments,
>
> Harold
>
>
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