Call for vote [Fwd: New Project Proposal: MIPS port of OpenJDK]

[Jonathan Springer]

Mark Reinhold wrote:
>> From: Mark Reinhold <mr at sun.com>
>> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:49:22 -0700
> 
>> ...
>>
>> I agree that "MIPS Port" would be a good name for this project, following
>> the "Haiku Port" that we already have.
>>
>> "MIPS" is, however, a trademark of MIPS Technologies, Inc., so I've asked
>> Sun Legal for advice on whether and how to use that name.  I expect an
>> answer in the next day or two, at which point we can go ahead and set up
>> your initial page and mailing list.
> 
> The advice of our trademark counsel is to call this the "Porting Project
> for MIPS".  The appearance of the mark at the end of the phrase, rather
> than the beginning, constitutes fair use.
> 
> To make this work in the left nav bar on the web pages we can shorten it
> to "Port: MIPS", and for consistency also change "Haiku Port" to "Port:
> Haiku".  This will cause all the porting projects to be listed together
> in the nav bar, which is kind of nice too.
> 
> The Project URL will be http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mips-port.
> 
> Okay?

Sounds great.  Thanks for checking all this out!

-Jonathan

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