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

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 04:31, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> wrote:

> Oracle has decided to take a trademark
> on OpenJDK
>

Makes sense to me. As does Firefox.


>  they allow distros to call IcedTea (in certain configurations)
> OpenJDK,
>

This is news to me. Which for instance?


> but they don't allow this for IcedTea-Web.
>

Is this written somewhere?. If the package is still called "Icedtea" but
comes with a 'meta package' (empty package) named openjdk-plugin and
referencing icedtea, wouldn' t that fit the bill? (as you haven't renamed
Icedtea-web, just created a pointer to it).

Thinking aloud...
FC


> Please go ask them
> if you want them to clean up their trademark license to allow this.
>



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