Hi David, David Sugar wrote: > Steve, > > perhaps you could explain for me why they would wish to change one > already confusing and contested moniker for another... > > While I have not followed it closely, and I certainly have no issue with > any of the work the ?formerly? openpbx (the one that is not the > voicetronix openpbx) project does, I fail to see how it would further > serve their purpose to be confused instead with GNU Telephony, our PBX > work, etc. I only very recently heard about this, but I was hoping you > could explain this to me and how this could happen. > > We are quite happy working in freedom on free telephony software, > services, and component libraries in GNU Telephony, many of which are > maintained as official GNU packages. While we certainly do not wish to > involve ourselves in other projects uninvited, when some group chooses > or appears to confusingly represent themselves as us, I feel I must > respond to that in some manner. At the very least, it would seem to me > to be simple common courtesy to have asked how we might feel about it first. > I'm sorry this has happened. Names were supposed to be vetted for basic suitability before being put forward for voting - e.g. a web search for who else might be using the name. The gnu in gnupbx clearly makes this unacceptable, without any need for a web search, and it should never have reached this stage.
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