[Qgis-developer] Release plans for QGIS 1.6

[Maxim Dubinin]

How about making release names geographic. QGIS 1.6 "Moscow" sounds
good and easily memorizable.

Maxim

Вы писали 16 октября 2010 г., 14:07:10:

TS> Hi

TS> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> On Sat, 16. Oct 2010 at 01:42:54 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>> We (the PSC) recently received a threat of legal action against our
>>> use of the word 'Tethys' in the naming of the 1.5 release of QGIS.
>>> It seems that the word Tethys is trademarked by a company in one country.
>>> Although we feel their case is weak, we do not have the time, money or
>>> inclination to engage in a legal battle over this.
>>
>> Does OSGeo have a position on this?  I thought the OSGeo umbrella was also
>> covering legal support.
>>
>> Just curious - that would probably be a waste of time of resources anyway.
>>

TS> Ok Frank covered that. And yeah we should pick our battles...

>>> This has a few implications:
>>
>>> - The PSC has agreed to stop using planetary moons as the names for
>>> our releases, and embark on a new theme of using extremely obscure
>>> place names (e.g. the mythical Tweebuffelsmeteenskootgeskietfontein in
>>> South Africa).
>>
>> Do we need codenames at all?   Any name - obscure or not - could be a
>> trademark.
>>
>>

TS> *sniff* lose the release names? That would be no fun....should we let
TS> big corporations take away our fun? :-P

TS> But yeah theoretically we don't need them, though personally I'd like
TS> to continue with them...

TS> Regards

TS> Tim

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