Re: Suggestion... renaming base, gui to Foundation and AppKit

[Yavor Doganov]

В Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:04:15 -0400, Gregory Casamento написа:

> 3) The original reason we did this was due to the fear of the
> Trademark police,

If you decide to go on with renaming, I'd suggest to recheck with the
FSF lawyers, just in case.

> but other projects which have attempted to implement Cocoa have used
> the names "Foundation" and "AppKit" without any problems.

That is not a reason to feel safe.  Enemies of freedom (and Apple
undoubtedly is a prominent one) usually choose to attack the most
mature implementation, the one that threatens their market position
most.  However, a trademark issue is certainly the weakest attack
vector, and it's very easy to prevent it from happenning... like ...
keeping the names as they are now :-).

> As it is with class names "NSObject" etc...

These are part of the API, so not a concern.