Re: OpenGo / GNU / GPL Name Confusion

[Fuming Wang <fuming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Jeffrey Greenberg wrote:

> 1. I'm operating under the idea that I'm going to release an infrastructure
> to help in programming go.   (This week...) Now there's jago that is being
> submitted to GNU... but the messages say "OpenGo"... I've already put out
> information on "OpenGo", got a website and documentation using that name,
> it'll be copyright/left with that name, asked Weiman Xiao who coined the name
> if it was ok with him, and I'd rather not go about changing the name at this
> point: SO, can the jago/gnu effort please use another name?

My understanding was that the GNU project was looking look an new Go
program for the next generation of GNU GO. I offered JaGo as an candidate,
and offered to port the OpenGo _interface_ to JaGo/GNU Go. However, if
the license of OpenGo has conflicts with GPL, this plan would obviously
be dropped. Either way, there won't be name conflicts.

--Fuming Wang