Hello,
Some guy from INRIA annonced on the website linuxfr he will published a
software named eSavane, https://linuxfr.org/~rootix/20797.html , not on the
field of Savane but near.
I wrote a private message to this person highlighting the possible confusions
it may creates and asking him to reconsider the name he picked.
He replied
"Le nom est en cours de dépôt à l'APP et n'est référencé nulle part sur
le
net. Une lettre de différence n'est pas valable pour moi. Savane est
de plus
un nom commun."
Which means that for him a stupid "e" letter in front of the word make it
whole different and that is enough for him. Moreoever, he announce that he's
willing to take legal action to enforce their name choice.
What should we do about it? There plenty of evidences of anteriorities of the
usage of the word Savane (by the way, the word is used by others software but
on completely different fields)
Loic, can the FSF France do anything in this regard. I'm not thinking of
getting in the legal field, there's nothing to gain I guess in this regard,
that would just be a waste of time. But maybe you could get in touch with
them. And if they refuse to take into consideration the interest of both of
us, maybe you could go public about the issue.
--
Mathieu Roy
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