P.S. To clarify my personal & institutional bias, here at FreeSlack the consensus for the distro name is "Freenix" at the moment, so I don't have an ulterior motive in making these suggestions.
On Friday, March 23, 2018 10:51:01 Ivan Zaigralin wrote: > I'd like to register my dislike of the subjective approach to the name > similarity issue as well. Not that it doesn't work. I think it works OK, > because this is not a particularly big deal to begin with. FreeSlack > project, for example, has always been flexible in that respect, as in, > fully cooperative. But it would be better to have an objective criterion, > like for example: > > Cannot use nonfree distro name or trademark as a substring in a free distro > name. > > A rule like this would prevent "Slackware Libre", but not "FreeSlack". But > more crucially, it would be fair, and no one would ever feel like an > individual reviewer at FSF is yanking their chain just for the fun of it. > > On Friday, March 23, 2018 13:36:59 bill-auger wrote: > > as i understand, the final issue preventing free-slack from being > > endorsed is the word "slack" in their name - which is in conflict with > > the "no name confusion" criteria > > > > so one other thing to point out for the sake of equality is that the > > connochaetos website refers to the repos it hosts as "The slack-n-free > > repo" > > > > "free-slack" > > "slack-n-free" > > > > is it just me? - im not seeing a huge difference there - personally, my > > opinion would be that neither are particularly offensive - "slack" is > > not exactly "slackware" - just as i see no problem with the free-dora > > repos hosted by FSFLA because "dora" is not "fedora" - although these > > are all clearly intended to remind the reader that "this is the freed > > version of that well-known one" > > > > o/c these are not my rules to make; but please let us apply the same > > rules equally to all
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