[LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Sun Dec 25 10:52:06 PST 2016


On Dec 21, 2016, at 10:13 PM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:

>>>>>> "Florian" == Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> However, I also agree with Dave, Alberto and Stefan that a name
>>> change may be a really smart way to communicate the fresh start of
>>> the project, a reboot, especially if the new name rides on the
>>> popularity of "OpenWRT". It could be for example "OpenLD" (LD for
>>> Linux Device) or "LibreWRT". Of course this is all conditional on the
>>> merge of OpenWRT and LEDE. If the projects do not merge, the OpenWRT
>>> folks and SPI may have a claim against the use of OpenLD or LibreWRT
>>> or alike.
> 
> Florian> The point was that OpenWrt is already registered and managed by
> Florian> SPI, so we may as well keep using it, and that is just what I
> Florian> meant to say here, nothing more.  -- Florian
> 
> Not that a choice on a name, with taste and discretion, isn't going to be
> needed, but I can't help but think of this:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
> 
> 
> PS: OpenLEDE. ;-)
> 
> 

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-Philip


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