The difference here is that these people aren't using Cactus as a
Registered Trademark. Or even a service mark. (No (r)'s or (tm)'s).
We might want to drop the webmaster a note sometime, and offer to cross
link, to help people looking for one package to find the other. But I
dont' see any ~legal~ problems here.
But, a whole 'nother approach, would be to use a boring functional name,
like
import apache.org.commons.unit.serverside
Vincent Massol wrote:
>
> I searched on freshmeat and found the following software with the name
> "Cactus" :
>
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>
> Cactus is a general, modular, parallel code for solving systems of partial
> differential equations. The code has been developmented over many years by a
> large international collaboration of numerical relativity and computational
> science research groups and can be used to provide a portable platform for
> solving any system of partial differential equations.
>
> Author:
> Tom Goodale
>
> Homepage:
> http://www.cactuscode.org/
> Tar/GZ:
> http://www.cactuscode.org/Download.html
> Changelog:
> http://www.cactuscode.org/Development/beta9.txt
>
> Trove categories:
> Development Status :: 4 - Beta
> Environment :: Console (Text Based) , Win32 (MS Windows)
> Old Appindex :: Console :: Scientific Applications
> Programming Language :: C , Fortran
> Topic :: Scientific/Engineering , Astronomy , Mathematics , Software
> Development
>
> Vitality score: 17 (0.02%)
> Record hits: 175
> URL hits: 188
> Subscriptions: 0
>
> ----- cut here -----
>
> Do you think that could be a problem ? In other words, is it legal for me to
> renamed J2EEUnit into Cactus if the name already exist ? Is it easier if I
> provide an acronym, such as Cool And Comprehensive Tests Unit for the Server
> or something similar ?
>
> Or do I really have to pick a non-existing name, like Cactuss ([...] Test
> Unit for the Server-Side) ?
>
> Thanks.
> Vincent.
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