Fork name

[Mark]

I know this may be a bit premature, but I am curious about how this is
going to proceed. Is this going to be a fork of the code or will
Oracle be handing over the name to the community? If it is a fork then
Red-Dwarf sounds awesome but might conflict a little with the show:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf

Cheers!

[Jeffrey Kesselman]

Lol.

Well, Darkstar conflicts with a Greatful Dead Albumn, the Darkstar Orchestra, a John Carpenter film (his student film actually but it was released commercially) and at least one video game :)

This why Sun never actually claimed it was a Trademark, simple a project name.  So really anyone COULD use the Project Darkstar name.  I just named the repo Red-Dwarf because, if we go on with our own development on top of labs work, it will effectively be a fork and I thought it more polite to have a new name to make it clear.

But I dont think anyone at S'norcle  will object to us still using the name Project Darkstar for the community. Its always possible thre may be other forks, and I;d like to keep us all together under one banner if at all possible.

And if anyone does complain about either name, well, it can be dealt with then.

After all, it worked fine for Python ;)

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[Mark]

Sounds good to me, heh.

I agree that keeping the community from fragmented should be a very
high priority for everyone interested in this project.
What you said makes sense about creating a new name for the project
being polite and also to help signify the split from oracle.

On Feb 3, 2:55 pm, Jeffrey Kesselman <jef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lol.
>
> Well, Darkstar conflicts with a Greatful Dead Albumn, the Darkstar
> Orchestra, a John Carpenter film (his student film actually but it was
> released commercially) and at least one video game :)
>
> This why Sun never actually claimed it was a Trademark, simple a project
> name.  So really anyone COULD use the Project Darkstar name.  I just named
> the repo Red-Dwarf because, if we go on with our own development on top of
> labs work, it will effectively be a fork and I thought it more polite to
> have a new name to make it clear.
>
> But I dont think anyone at S'norcle  will object to us still using the name
> Project Darkstar for the community. Its always possible thre may be other
> forks, and I;d like to keep us all together under one banner if at all
> possible.
>
> And if anyone does complain about either name, well, it can be dealt with
> then.
>
> After all, it worked fine for Python ;)
>