hello, these two things are not related.
The one project is an extension to an existing project and so can't have the same name for legal reasons alone. If you call your project 'tablecanvas' this is in no means related to the programming language java and it swing libraries. Like for example it designs canvas layouts for kitchen tables... Now if you would create a project called 'swing' which focuses on GUI Elements for java and maybe has identical class names. There would be a potential conflict with sun/oracle and they would first politely ask you to change your name and possible consider legal actions afterward. Last but not least why should he change his (published?) project name, because a (former?) collaborator decides to use the same name for a personal project. In the field of academic research publications are the most important thing and it's incredible unprofessional and frowned upon to use the same name for a new tool and maybe even publish this in the near future. The only solution at this point at time is that the author of the conflictiing project renames his project and states clearly the relation. regards, gert (I'm not related or affiliated with this project or related project in anyway. I just want to state the conflict of interest and why it's a different scenario than yours Shawn) On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Keanen Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a project called tablecanvas, which happens to have the same > name as the Java tablecanvas class. Would you advise I take down my > project too? In the open source world, a name is nothing more. If it's > such a serious thing for you, change the name of your own project. > > -Keanen > > On 9/13/10, Ben Collins-Sussman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello Jørn, >> >> Unfortunately, Google cannot take down a project (or force it to move >> or rename) unless legal action requires us to do so. If you can't >> work out the dispute with Daniel privately, then your only recourse is >> to file a DMCA takedown request with Google. Please see our policy on >> this: >> >> http://www.google.com/dmca.html >> >> Best regards, >> Ben Collins-Sussman >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> > > -- > 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. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Lead Developer - Fiehnlab, UC Davis gert wohlgemuth [email protected] work: http://fiehnlab.ucdavis.edu/staff/wohlgemuth phone: (530) 383-0974 coding blog http://codingandmore.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------ you're "a long time dead", as they say -- 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.
