On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 07:33:51PM -0800, Daniel Wilkerson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Steve Kargl > <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:10:39PM -0800, Daniel Wilkerson wrote: > >> > >> Another major bug is using the name libdwarf when a libdwarf project > >> already exists which you are explicitly imitating: you are basically > >> violating his trademark. Firebird changed their name to Firefox just > >> because another project existed. > >> > > > > Huh? The project name is "The Elf Tool Chaini Project". > > The fact that it contains a library named libdwarf does > > not violate anything. > > > > Or, are you saying that all non-Dennis-Ritchie derived C compiler > > must call their runtime library something other than libc? > > > If you install it in the global namespace as "libdwarf" and it > therefore creates an anti-dependency on the original, then, yes, you > have stolen the name of the previous project. If instead you > installed it under some elftoolchain/libdwarf, or maybe > elftoolchain-libdwarf, that might be different.
So, do you have a libc and is that Dennis Ritchie's libc? There's no stealing. If this upset you so greatly, then use the original libdwarf. -- Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Elftoolchain-developers mailing list Elftoolchain-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/elftoolchain-developers
