If Icedtea-web is the plug-in component for OpenJDK upstream, its name should be openjdk-plugin !

[Mark Wielaard]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 02:05:05PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> I was having the argument on the Fedora mailing list so I decided to
> bring this here.

It is a packaging issue, so it seems better to discuss this on the
Fedora list directly.

> So, while my dream would be for Icedtea-web to be merged with OpenJDK
> and become "openjdk-plugin" I imagine this would rub the Icedtea team
> the wrong way, for all the usual egotistical reasons. So, at this
> point, I don't want to start an ugly argument, let's say that for the
> time being it'd suffice if IcedTea-Web team recommends distros to
> include an alias for the Icedtea-web package, named "openjdk-plugin"
> becase, gee, not everyone in the world knows that the open source java
> has a plugin with a totally unrelated name to the open source java
> package name (OpenJDK).

Even if it is a good idea to have consistent naming, your case isn't
being helped by insulting the hackers you are asking help from. But you
are really asking the wrong people. Oracle has decided to take a trademark
on OpenJDK, they allow distros to call IcedTea (in certain configurations)
OpenJDK, but they don't allow this for IcedTea-Web. Please go ask them
if you want them to clean up their trademark license to allow this.

Thanks,

Mark