[Gt-eos] gtk source repo location

Brian Lin blin at cs.wisc.edu
Fri Oct 20 15:56:30 CEST 2017


Frank,

Does this mean that we can keep the repository name the same (e.g. just 
fork it in GitHub)? How about the EPEL/Debian/Ubuntu packaging? That 
would certainly make life easier for everyone all around and we'd just 
have to worry about the name of the GitHub org.

Thanks,
Brian

On 10/20/2017 08:45 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On 10/20/2017 03:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> Hi Oliver,
>>
>> On 10/20/2017 03:27 PM, Oliver Keeble wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>> There is by the way another important issue with not being able to 
>>>>> use
>>>>> the word globus: it's in almost every library name in the toolkit. 
>>>>> So if
>>>>> we want to/must remove it from there too, we need a rebuild of each
>>>>> globus-depending software product... It also could mean having all 
>>>>> the
>>>>> products needing re-adoption into Fedora/EPEL and Debian.
>>>>
>>>> Is it something that can be avoided?
>>>
>>> I think it can certainly be avoided. Globus may trademark the name 
>>> (have they?)
>>
>> Yes, they have. See the bottom message on [1] and [2].
>>
>> [1]: http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/
>>
>> [2]: http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/contributions.html#Cobranding
>>
>
> Although "Globus" is a trademark, the use of "Globus"/"globus" in the 
> source code in file names, directory names, function, variable, etc. 
> names and the names of compiled executables and libraries is a 
> different thing, I believe.
>
> The source code contains "Globus"/"globus" everywhere but is licensed 
> under an Open Source license, which in my eyes includes reuse as-is 
> without prior changes, even for binaries, as the names for the 
> binaries are determined by the Makefiles which are part of the source 
> code.
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
>
>
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