> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henri Yandell [mailto:bayard@;generationjava.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 2:42 PM
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> Subject: RE: [jdbc] JdbcUtil etc
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> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Given all the recent issues about our responsibilities wrt legal
> > issues, I think that using a Sun Trademark (is it a trademark?) for
> > one of our released products could cause problems. If jdbc is
> > preferred, I think that it should be checked with our official PMC
> > (Jakarta) or the board.
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> > For beans, the solution was to call it beanutil, so perhaps
> we should
> > call it jdbcutil.
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> Looking at the Sun website, the JDBC acronym is clearly
> trademarked on its
> webpage so we need another name.
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> [A friend suggested JDBS... He's had some bad times with JDBC :) ]
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> I'll ask the question on General as do we even know if jdbcutil is ok?
> [Beans isn't trademarked, JavaBeans is].
In its early days, Vincent Massol had trouble with Cactus. It was originally
called J2EEUnit, but he had to change the name because of the J2EE part. So
I'd say that makes jdbcutil unworkable too. ;-{
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Martin Cooper
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