Hi all, Yesterday our institution, the University of Tübingen, Germany, received an email from SUN. The email started by saying that SUN is pleased to see projects written in their programing language "Java" that we provide at our institution. However, they wanted us to rename our Evoulutionary Algorithms package "JavaEvA" to something like "JEvA" and our Neural Network project "JavaNNS" should also be renamed to something else like "JNNS". The reason for this is that SUN owns a trademark on the name "Java" and no other institution or company is supposed to use this name for its own purposes or software packages, even if this is a non profit and/or open source project as JavaEvA and JavaNNS. We might later even get a dissuasion letter if we do not follow the instructions in the email. I do not exactly know how SUN and the BioJava project are connected. However, in the worst case someday we could also receive a writing like that. To summarize: we should be aware that possibly the name "BioJava" has to be changed to something else like "JBio" or "BioJ" or what ever SUN might suggest as soon as they recognize our project. If there is already an agreement with SUN about that, I am not well informed and curious to know about it. Otherwise you are now informed about what happened to us in Tübingen.
Sincerely, Andreas Dräger -- Dipl.Bioinform. Andreas Dräger Eberhard Karls University Tübingen Center for Bioinformatics (ZBIT) Germany Phone: +49-7071-29-70436 Fax: +49-7071-29-5091 _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
