Hi I also feel deep empathy for the Japanese people affected by the quake, but I think that we should avoid a slippery slope of calling QGIS after world events. Sooner or later political sensitivities will enter into the equation and we are a multinational, non-partisan, independent, bring a little light into your life kind of project :-) So lets go with Wroclaw and celebrate the kind folks who put a lot of work in to make the last hackfest happen.
@marco I could only find one trademark referencing Wroclaw here: http://online.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/cntcTrademarkSearch?check.x=1&check.y=1&companyName=Wroclaw&pageIndex=1&refineSearch=false The company seems to operate in a different market sector and it isnt clear from their logo that Wroclaw is the principle part of the name. http://online.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/cntcTrademarkDetails?trademarkId=E8276305 Granted I'm not a trademark lawyer, but it seems to me safe for us to use the Wroclaw name. Of course we would probably need to search like that on every trademark database in the world before we really could be sure... I think even a future 'Lisbon' release would probably be fine unless there is competing GIS software also called Lisbon.... Regards Tim On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Martin Dobias <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Giovanni Manghi > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I would strongly prefer to use names that connect QGIS releases with >>> some positive feelings. >> >> "Copiapó" had nothing to do with negative feelings... on the contrary it >> was suggested because after all it was a location know everywhere for >> positive reasons... the miners were rescued :) > > Exactly. I didn't want to say that "Copiapó" was a bad name, quite contrary! > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming and support services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ============================================== _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
