Making the GPL more scary [LWN.net]

Making the GPL more scary

Posted Oct 19, 2018 9:21 UTC (Fri) by sbakker (subscriber, #58443)
In reply to: Making the GPL more scary by smurf
Parent article: Making the GPL more scary

That was my first reaction as well. Take the last GPL-versioned commit and fork from there. If so, first order of business should be to change that awful name.

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Making the GPL more scary

Posted Oct 20, 2018 21:56 UTC (Sat) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] (8 responses)

The fork should, obviously, be called "MingDB"

Making the GPL more scary

Posted Oct 21, 2018 5:31 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

"Ming" like in 明天？Otherwise it's not obvious at least to me.

Making the GPL more scary

Posted Oct 21, 2018 8:11 UTC (Sun) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

Ming as in "Ming the Merciless", ruler of the planet Mongo.

Making the GPL more scary

Posted Oct 22, 2018 10:33 UTC (Mon) by rathann (subscriber, #50815) [Link] (5 responses)

Sounds appropriate, but there's already something else called "Ming": http://www.libming.org/ .

Making the GPL more scary

Posted Oct 23, 2018 18:47 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

Too bad. I had already avoided suggesting FlashDB for a similar reason. Once again the continued existence of Flash is making life difficult.

Making the GPL more scary

Posted Oct 30, 2018 5:24 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (3 responses)

That name in itself is going to confuse someone: http://www.libmng.com/

Making the GPL more scary

Posted Nov 2, 2018 13:13 UTC (Fri) by joib (subscriber, #8541) [Link] (2 responses)

Not to mention mingw

Making the GPL more scary

Posted Nov 3, 2018 1:03 UTC (Sat) by VITTUIX-MAN (guest, #82895) [Link] (1 responses)

And Xming too, when was the last time anyone ran that?

Making the GPL more scary

Posted Nov 3, 2018 20:29 UTC (Sat) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

Xming is running on my Windows desktop right now. I use it all the time.