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Subject: Call for vote [Fwd: New Project Proposal: MIPS port of OpenJDK]
From: springer () reservoir ! com (Jonathan Springer)
Date: 2008-04-03 15:42:33
Message-ID: 47F4FAE9.30109 () reservoir ! com
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Mark Reinhold wrote:
>> From: Mark Reinhold <mr at sun.com>
>> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:49:22 -0700
>
>> ...
>>
>> I agree that "MIPS Port" would be a good name for this project, following
>> the "Haiku Port" that we already have.
>>
>> "MIPS" is, however, a trademark of MIPS Technologies, Inc., so I've asked
>> Sun Legal for advice on whether and how to use that name. I expect an
>> answer in the next day or two, at which point we can go ahead and set up
>> your initial page and mailing list.
>
> The advice of our trademark counsel is to call this the "Porting Project
> for MIPS". The appearance of the mark at the end of the phrase, rather
> than the beginning, constitutes fair use.
>
> To make this work in the left nav bar on the web pages we can shorten it
> to "Port: MIPS", and for consistency also change "Haiku Port" to "Port:
> Haiku". This will cause all the porting projects to be listed together
> in the nav bar, which is kind of nice too.
>
> The Project URL will be http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mips-port.
>
> Okay?
Sounds great. Thanks for checking all this out!
-Jonathan
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