[IMPORTANT] Find a new name for ArmyKnife

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ArmyKnife is an application that lets you edit the metadata of audio files

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[IMPORTANT] Find a new name for ArmyKnife #25

Closed waddlesplash closed 10 years ago

waddlesplash commented 10 years ago

Apparently the rights to the name of ArmyKnife are held by TuneTracker, who've requested that we change it. (They initially suggested to just add a space; but due to technical restrictions of GitHub and HPKG files we can't do that.)

This must be fixed before any packages are uploaded to the repos as they would conflict with TuneTracker's packages on end-user's systems.

cc: @scottmc @pulkomandy (as you're not watching this repo for some reason)

pulkomandy commented 10 years ago

I'm confused. It looks like TuneTracker is bundling the very same ArmyKnife in their packages (http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/armyknife.html). Why wouldn't they use or replace the one from our depots? Is their version improved in some ways? And if so, is there a reason to not share the changes with the open source version? What is the license of this anyway (no LICENSE file in the repo)?

scottmc commented 10 years ago

ArmyKnife is under the MIT license. If you look through the code it may or may not still be in the current repo, but there was an ArmyKnifeTTE version which was the TuneTrackerEdition. I'm not sure what was different with that one, but we've since only updated the basic version. This one could use some GCI attention this year. For one it really needs to have the GUI reworked, perhaps to use Layout Manager. There was some work done to add Album Artwork, I'm not sure of it's status though. The newer taglib has support for it. Trouble is taglib is gcc4 only since version 1.6x or 1.7x, it's now at 1.8x+ or something. So we may just want to move this over to being gcc2h or gcc4 only?

waddlesplash commented 10 years ago

@pulkomandy they got the rights from the author and modified it, a lot.

@scottmc Sounds OK. I'll try one more time to see if they'll rename but it's probably not going to happen.

Would the name "MediaTag" be acceptable with everyone?

pulkomandy commented 10 years ago

That doesn't answer all of my questions.

The two packages can use the same name, if the TT one has a greater version number it will override ours.
Or, TT can send us their sourcecode and we can have just one package for everyone (unless they want to sell it, which would be ok too)
Maybe we can just name ours ArmyKnife_free or something similar. Or maybe they can name theirs ArmyKnife_TTE as it seems it was before.

The fact that they use the code is fine (it's MIT), but that doesn't give them ownership of the "ArmyKnife" name. As far as I know it's not a registered trademark, so on which grounds should we change the name of the original version to make space for their fork?

waddlesplash commented 10 years ago

From what I've heard that's not an acceptable solution to them.
They added some proprietary features, so they are selling it
That's one of the things they suggested to me, so if you think that's OK too then we can rename it to that.

Should we rename just the HaikuPorter recipe to be ArmyKnife_free or this repo too?

scottmc commented 10 years ago

We will just leave it as ArmyKnife.