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From: matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products)
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Subject: Re: A rose by any other name
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Date: 14 Oct 89 01:23:38 GMT
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In article <18132@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) writes:
|A brief history of an archiver:
|
|Aug - (or so) It was able to most of the things you'd expect from an
|      archive, so I called it NuARC.
|
|Sep - SeaWare owns ARC, and doesn't like it when people even *think*
|      about using those three letters in a program name.  So, it
|      becomes CShrink (Shrinkit-compatible archiver written in C).
|
|Oct - Guess which program is now commercial?  L&L own ShrinkIt, so I
|      can't use "Shrink" or "It" in the name.
|
|Today - I don't know what the hell to call it.  Suggestions are welcome.
|
|-- 
|fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
|...!ucbvax!cory!fadden


	You may be jumping the gun here on all these name changes.  Have you even
tried getting written permission from the owners of ARC and Shrinkit to use your
derived names?

	I myself prefer NuARC.  I'm under the impression that SEA is not so
much after anybody that uses the letters 'ARC' in there product name, but to
prohibit persons from producing a incompatible archive that advertises to be
compatible.

	The use of 'ARC' in the names of non-SEA products invades even the UNIX,
and Apple worlds. (I've got a freeware version of a ARC running on my Sun work-
stations, (which the author has permission to distribute under the name 'ARC') 
and we have DeARC running on the Apple //e's, //c's, and //gs.)

	Try writing SEA for written permission to use the name 'NuARC' as your 
program name.  As long as you promise not to advertise it as 'ARC' compatible,
and even go to the length of promising to add a notice to the documentation, 
startup screen, and online help screen that NuARC is a NuFx compatible archiver, 
and not an ARC compatible archiver, they may grant you permission to use it. 

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