Re: [Axiom-developer] [fricas-devel] Re: trademarks

[Eugene Surowitz]

Already understood and I had already mirrored my comments
to the FriCAS-devel list; just forgot to include OpenAxiom.

The issue is deeper though: An inspection of only the src/interp
source files reveals numerous references to 'axiom' or 'Axiom'.
FriCAS appears to use boot code -- I assume, without having got
around to inspecting it in more detail, that it too may contain
many such references; I haven't looked at OpenAxiom.

Cheer, Gene

On 4/22/2013 11:57 AM, u1204 wrote:
> Eugene,
>
> The issue has nothing to do with the wiki. I don't care if the wiki
> uses Axiom. Axiom is open source software and can be used by anyone.
>
> The issue is using the Axiom name to label things that are not Axiom.
>
> In this instance, the web page
>
>       http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/SandBoxObserverAsIdempotent2
>
> has 72 instances of the name "Axiom" on the page. However, it was not
> developed using Axiom. It was developed using FriCAS.
>
> Nobody would accept the web page if every line was labeled
> "Mathematica". FriCAS and Mathematica are not the same thing.
> You cannot run this code in Mathematica.
>
> And you cannot run this code in Axiom.
>
> I received a bug report because of this confusion.  I am asking people
> who are mathematicians, who know how to be precise, to BE precise and
> use the names properly.
>
> SBCL is a fork of CMUCL. You never see SBCL claiming to BE CMUCL.
> Jenkins is a fork of Hudson. You never see Jenkins claiming to BE Hudson.
> Ubuntu is a fork of RedHat. You never see Ubuntu claiming to BE RedHat.
> ...
>
> It would seem too obvious for words. Need I say more?
>
> Tim Daly
>
> (p.s. I cannot post to the fricas-devel mailing list so you might want
> to mirror this to your fricas-devel reply)