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.
Steve
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