[Gt-eos] gtk source repo location

[Frank Scheiner]

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

-- 
Frank Scheiner

High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
Department Project User Management & Accounting

Email: scheiner at hlrs.de
Phone: +49 711 685 68039

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