Re: Officially changing name to sourceware.org

[Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Does anyone have any strong objections to changing the name of this
> system to 'sourceware.org' and referring to it in that way from now
> own?
> 
> It's been brought to my attention that, as a visible system in the
> redhat.com domain, any improprieties or incursions here would reflect
> badly on Red Hat, so, IMO, the best solution to that is to change the
> name.  Then if we are hacked and someone changes our web site to say
> "You suck", no one will have to blame Red Hat for offending their
> sensibilities.
> 
> I suppose that we'd need to keep the 'sources.redhat.com' name around
> for the foreseeable future but, unless there are objections, I am going
> to be replacing its use whereever I find it on the system.

Wasn't there some reason sourceware.org couldn't be used? Trademark or some
such? It doesn't really bother me one way or another if the name changes, but
I know there was some discussion about this back when it lived on a Red Hat
ip block. I'm not sure if the issue is even relevant anymore.

Could someone who remembers please enlignten me?

Thanks,

Matt

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