Elefterios Stamatogiannakis wrote: > Madis is a extensible relational database system built upon the SQLite > database and with extensions written in Python (via APSW SQLite > wrapper). Its is developed at: > > http://madis.googlecode.com > > Due to Madis’ SQLite core, the database format of Madis is exactly the > same as SQLite’s one. This means that all SQLite databases are directly > usable with Madis. > > Madis' enables to quickly develop (in Python) and test new relational > functions and virtual tables. SQL syntax extensions were also created to > simplify queries which use these functions. > > Madis' main goal is to promote the handling of data related tasks within > an extended relational model. In doing so, it promotes the database, > from a support role (storing and retrieving data), to being a full data > processing system on its own. Madis already includes functions for file > import/export, keyword analysis, data mining tasks, fast indexing, > pivoting, statistics and workflow execution. <snip>
I am concerned with your choice of project name, "Madis", because there may be reasonable grounds for confusion between your project and my "Muldis" projects, which I have been releasing and promoting for about 3 years now (and for which I've had domain names for about 6 years). See http://muldis.com/ for my projects' canonical url, which has links to said projects near the top. Specifically, I have "Muldis D" and "Muldis Rosetta" projects released now, and I intend to use "Muldis" as the distinguishing family identifier for other projects in the near future and over the long term. My projects are relational+extended DBMSs and query languages and provide integration with both all general programming languages (starting with Perl, but Python being among the next top 3 to explicitly support) and existing SQL DBMSs, where SQLite would be one of the first. Your project description sounds sufficiently similar. While I can recognize how you might have independently come up with your name after following the above url (it looks like a combination of author name letters or institution letters), I hope that you can quickly come up with an alternative that isn't so similar to my name (say, by using some alternate letters from those sources, or making your name longer), and then use that from then on, and make an announcement of said name change as soon as possible. If renaming "Madis" to something less similar to "Muldis" seems onerous or unnecessary, I welcome a reasonable proposal to resolve this matter. Since it appears you only started promoting your project now, your name shouldn't have any mind share so I see little reason for you to keep it and have us add the complexity of explicit disclaimers of not being related to the other. I also welcome any third party comments in regards to whether I have reasonable grounds to think there may be confusion between the 2 projects that could affect trademark matters. Thank you in advance. -- Darren Duncan _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
