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Name search goes on
We were going to call the soon coming release CPG-Nuke OpenSpirit but after some searching we found the OpenSpirit® Software Corporation we contacted them:

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Dears Sirs,
We are the project managers for the opensource portal CPG-Nuke. We have highly modified phpnuke to be safe fast and secure as well as a host of bug fixes and new features. You can checkout our features at our site htp://cpgnuke.com/ which is running the latest version from our CVS.

The reason we are writing to you is that we planned on calling this release of our content management system "CPG-Nuke 9.0 OpenSpirit".
After a web search we found that you are claiming trademark on this name and ask your permission use this as a subname of our release, our software will be continued to be called CPG-Nuke but the release will be named OpenSpirit. We thank you for your time,...

They responded

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We received your request for permission to use the "OpenSpirit" name for your software, but we must deny your request. We have a U.S. trademark for OpenSpirit (Registration No. 2884603, first use 1998) which is used for our suite of software products. Therefore, we are very concerned that any other software product using the OpenSpirit name would create potential confusion in the marketplace.

I would appreciate if you would confirm that you have received my e-mail and that you will change the name of your software to something other than "OpenSpirit." This will avoid us having to get our attorneys involved to send a more formal letter.

We do appreciate that you contacted us early on in the process.

Yours truly,
Dan Piette
President and CEO
OpenSpirit Corp.

I replied with a link to this article

Dan Piette wrote:

Thanks, I appreciate the prompt response.
Good luck with Dragonfly.
Cheers,
Dan

So the search is on.....
CPG-Nuke 9.0 - Dragonfly™ (First Use 20041007)

We like Dragonfly™ and would like to hear your thoughts on it...
I have searched both at
The WIPO and the USPTO and have found no current trade or servicemark related to content management systems/software and Dragonfly.

Dragonflies have a top flight speed of up to 100 km/h
Dragonflies are ancient insects. They were around before the dinosaurs! Ancient dragonflies may have been considerably larger than those we see today.
A fossilized impression of a dragonfly wing, found in a coal mine in England, is the oldest known dragonfly specimen. This dragonfly lived 300 million years ago and had a wingspan of eight inches.
The largest known dragonfly had a wingspan of 24 inches (two feet). Today, the largest dragonfly is found in South America and has a wingspan of slightly over seven inches. Other than being smaller, modern-day dragonflies do not look very different from their ancestors.
Dragonflies are sometimes called "mosquito hawk" because they catch and eat so many mosquitoes. Always on the hunt, dragonflies consume gnats, flies, and mosquitoes--all of which humans consider pests.
Dragonflies' ability to maneuver makes them able to out-fly their prey.

Native American Animal Totems wrote:

Dragon Fly: You are the quite messenger and harbinger of order, leaving in your wake the well thought out systems of filing codes and protocols that only you fully understand. Your nature is basically utilitarian and you know that efficiency is only achieved by repetition, attention to detail, and discipline. You love to see how many things you can do quickly and well and at all times you can bring your spot light vision and superb mind to the given matter at hand. You love routine, and believe you and others function better within them.

http://www.starfriends.com/NSDragonfly.htm

Posted by akamu Thursday, October 28, 2004 (09:09:09)

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Re: Name search goes on
by Rage on Thursday, October 28, 2004 (11:12:40)
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Dragonfly is a cool name, better than openspirit in my opinion, well done. Smile

Re: Name search goes on
by bigern75 on Thursday, October 28, 2004 (13:12:37)
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Dragonfly is awesome. Thats my wifes fav. I think it would be an ample name to use on this awesome cms.

Re: Name search goes on
by corky on Thursday, October 28, 2004 (13:29:35)
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I like it, and thanks for the history class akamu!!! haha j/k Laughing

Re: Name search goes on
by Andreas on Thursday, October 28, 2004 (14:12:25)
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I liked OpenSpirit more, but Dragonfly will also be quite sufficient. It has a nice ring to it. Smile

Re: Name search goes on
by NanoCaiordo on Thursday, October 28, 2004 (16:17:02)
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BluSpirit: blu like the sky, the ocean like cpgnuke theme, blu is a 1 of the three basilar color so necessary, blu means freedom and security.

RedSpirit: red like ferrari, fire, love, fear and power. You will find red in all english speaking flag's states like usa, australia, canada and uk, red is one of the three basilar color as well so you need that!

I used to love OpenSpirit but BluSpirit and RedSpirit are good alternatives for my opinion.

Re: Name search goes on
by SCROFT on Thursday, October 28, 2004 (16:32:14)
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I like DragonFly... even more so after the history lesson. Gives the impression we plan on sticking around for a while.

Re: Name search goes on
by meek on Thursday, October 28, 2004 (17:41:45)
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wow that was cool

how about the (freeSpirit)

watchatink?

Re: Name search goes on by akamu on Thursday, October 28
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Re: Name search goes on
by burnwave on Thursday, October 28, 2004 (20:46:36)
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So what's the significance of the release pseudonym?

Re: Name search goes on by Mesum on Friday, October 29

Re: Name search goes on
by corky on Friday, October 29, 2004 (13:17:09)
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how bout CPG-Nuke MatiX?

Re: Name search goes on (Score: 1 )
by masterbeta on Friday, October 29, 2004 (16:53:15)
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i do like the DragonFly-CMS™ name actually

i already see dragonflies flying by my screen in future logo's
hehe

Re: Name search goes on by tank on Saturday, October 30
- Re: Name search goes on by akamu on Saturday, October 30

Re: Name search goes on (Score: 1 )
by radiogetswild on Saturday, October 30, 2004 (07:08:07)
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yep i like dragonfly maze nice name we are all looking forward to the new release...

best wishes from Tim and all the crew at radio gets wild

Re: Name search goes on by tuta on Saturday, October 30

Re: Name search goes on (Score: 1 )
by chris333 on Sunday, October 31, 2004 (18:07:43)
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hello,

i don't like the name cpg-nuke because of 2 reasons, nuke is not a cool word because it's the name of a bomb that killed thousands of people and will perhaps kill even more (little story from the fast: the site called nukecops.com got every month a mail from another police station that asked why they want "to nuke cops") the other reason is the word cpg, this stands for coppermine photo gallery, and the gallery is part of it, but it's one of the modules, there are other like phpbb forum ... Surprised

another problem is that the php group does not allow people to use the word php if their script runs with php, you can only call your script/program php-myName if this tool is an addon for the php parser. so FB has to change the name php-nuke which runs on php but is not an php addon. Confused

so why don't we call it CMS... ? Very Happy

what the devs did is take the best part from php-nuke, the best from coppermine photo gallery, the best part from phpbb and they added some great addons, so we have now a real hardcore cms tool, which combines a good newssystem, a forum, an image gallery and so on. CMS = Content Management System and thats what this tool does. You can call it open-CMS, fsf-cms = fast, secure n free content management system ...

chris

Re: Name search goes on (Score: 1 )
by chris333 on Sunday, October 31, 2004 (18:16:23)
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i forgot to say that dragonfly-cms sounds good for me, and i also like the idea to take an animals name for the tool, because most opensource tools/script/programs have animals as name or logo, linux = tux, firefox, mozilla = dragon, the gimp, totoise cvs, eMule, ... Twisted Evil