[cairo] cairoplotlib

Peter Weilbacher mozilla at weilbacher.org
Sat Feb 20 00:30:40 PST 2010


On 19/02/10 19:00, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:01:53 +1100, James Wetter<wetter.j at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I am planing on releasing the source under the GPL v3 with the name cpl
>> (cairoplotlib).

[...]

> Naming is *hard*. I'll say that much at least. :-)

Couldn't agree more. ;-)

> CPL is already the name of a software license at least, the Common
> Public License, (not to mention the Chicago Public Library). That may or
> may not be an issue you want to consider.

There's also a "Common Pipeline Library" used to process astronomical data
at ESO (see http://www.eso.org/sci/data-processing/software/cpl/) which is
abbreviated as CPL.

    Peter.


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