Hi everyone, I've been privately working on a project for the last few months, a text console based GUI system in 100% java (similar to curses but including a gui toolkit on top), that I eventually felt I'd like to share with the rest of the world as it could find usages elsewhere.
Now, the name I used from the beginning was "lantern" and it turns out this precise name has been registered at sourceforge, so I could not use that name at google code without permission from the older "lantern" project's owner. I used the form on google code to send a message to the author and when I didn't get any reply after a week I emailed him personally but still (after more than a month) no reply. The older "lantern" project was published on sourceforge in July 2003, marked "alpha", one file released and haven't seen any activity since then (downloads at about 3500 in total). It looks to me like the project has been abandoned and the author might as well not be using the same email address he registered the project with seven years ago. Still, the policy here is not to allow me to use that name, even though the author cannot be reached anymore, right? Of course I could change the name on my end, but I'm the kind of person who is really bad at coming up with names and the name "lantern" has kind of attached itself on me during the development. Regards, Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
