Dear Mychaela,
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:02:49AM -0800, Mychaela Falconia wrote:
> I have my new incarnation of SIMtrace mostly working:
it is great that you are working on a SIM card protocol tracer, and that
you share your updates here.
However, I would like to ask you to stop using the name "SIMtrace3". This
will lead to a lot of confusion among users, as it is not the designated/
official successor [it might be a candidate, but that is something that
all parties agree to] to the SIMtrace + SIMtrace2 project that Kevin and I
started more than a decade ago. It is a matter of respect for other
peoples' work.
Let me put it the other way around: Wouldn't you also feel weird if we
suddenly started a "FreeCalypso2" project? Or a "Osmocom FCDEV4B board"
or the like? Maybe you wouldn't mind, and that's fine. But its something
the existing user of the respective name has to be asked about, and nothing
the new user of the name can determine unilaterally.
So in the sake of having clear project names avoiding confusion among users
or software package maintainers at distributions, ...: Please stop at the
very least using the "SIMtrace plus a number" naming scheme, or consider
to stop using the SIMtrace name altogether. UICCtrace? CardTrace?
ChipCardTrace? ISO7816Trace? There are many reasonable names that are
not used yet, AFAICT.
I am in no way implying that there I, the Osmocom project or sysmocom have
a legal right to prevent anyone from using the SIMtrace name. It is not
a registered trade mark. However, as stated above, I would say the re-use
of an existing name with a different [version] number does not fall into
the general consensus of how FOSS projects or the wider hacker community
treat each other.
> This new SIMtrace3 gadget is more than just a proposal - most parts of
It might be a real-world implementation of a SIM card protocol tracer,
but that doesn't make it "SIMtrace3" with a name implying it is the
designated successor of the existing SIMtrace vresions. Yesterday others
approached me confused about why you had added something about a
SIMtrace3 talk to osmocom redmine, when there was no decision as to what
the Version 3 of SIMtrace actually should look like. Hence I desided to
rename the title in the redmine to "proposal" as I perceive it as a
hardware project that you wanted to propose to become SIMtrace3. It
wouldn't have crosesd my mind that anyone would simply claim it is
SIMtrace3 unilaterally, and then "inform" Osmocom about that without any
prior discussion.
Thanks,
Harald
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- Harald Welte <lafo...@osmocom.org> https://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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