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Re: [trinity-devel] Qt3 legal issues?

From: L0ner sh4dou <sh4dou@...>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:11:05 +0100
2011/12/19 Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...>:
>> Out of curiosity? Isn't Qt registered trademark of nokia? I found this
>> on qt4/nokia page: "Nokia, Qt and their respective logos are
>> trademarks of Nokia Corporation in Finland and/or other countries
>> worldwide.".
>
> As Qt3 is part of the LSB and is no longer maintained by Nokia the proper
> action to take becomes a bit murky.  Renaming the project will cause
> confusion, and partially defeat the purpose of taking over Qt3 maintenance
> in the first place.
>
> My first thought is to wait and see if Nokia even cares enough to contact
> us about it.  We are not competing with Nokia (we don't even have a Web
> site for Qt3!); the extent of our publication of Qt3 is a source directory
> tucked away in our GIT tree.  Personally I don't think we'll hear from
> Nokia any time soon. ;-)
>
Let's hope so. Anyway I had an idea about whole Trinity, I already
talked about this with Calvin and he liked this idea.
I'd split whole trinity into 3 components: Trinity Libs, Trinity
Desktop Enviroment and Trinity Apps. And call the whole thing Trinity
Project
Trinity libs: qt3, tdelibs and other libs we provide
TDE: things only needed for desktop Enviroment. panels, menus,
kcontrol, kwin ecc...
Trinity apps: apps based on Trinity libs, but which do not require TDE
to be run.
What do you think about it?
Besides, split current tde* monolithic groups into single apps. Do we
have any reason to keep them as they are?