On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:33 PM, mabe02 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
I'm sorry but the "lantern" project name is not currently available on Google Code. -Nathaniel -- 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.
