Tim
On Mar 12, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
Kalle Korhonen wrote:On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected] >wrote:Is it up for a bet?It was just a joke :)Just FYI, it's now more than two months we are discussing about this name issue. If we decided to switch from JSecurity to Ki, it was because Juniper Computer is already using J-Security. It appears that the FlyerWhatever company is also using Ki, and they made us know about it.I'm just saying that if that thread was the onlydiscussion on it, it looked indecisive. If Les had more private discussion with the company's representatives then it'd be entirely different matter. Have you or anybody asked ASF legal? If legal is not available for exactlythese types of questions, then I don't know what its purpose is.I don't want to rehash the hundred (almost) of mails exchanged, but be sure we already asked Legal about that, and Legal don't care, unless we get sued. Legal don't have the time nor the men to deal with name collision. It's up to us to find a name unlikely to be jeopardized by an existing name.We thought that Ki was safe, and agreed about it. Bad move, and this is very unfortunate. But in any case, we don't have time nor money to start a dispute about the Ki name, and it's more likely that we would lost less time discussing about a new name than trying to unforce the existing one.I'm not pleased at all about this situation, trust me on that.PS: http://www.apache.org/legal/. This will give you some info about what Legal is about.-- -- cordialement, regards, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com directory.apache.org
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