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What's the status of third party's ability to use product names like "CFML" and ColdFusion?

I think this project is a fantastic idea but I would like to feel comfortable that it's legally allowed (forever) by Adobe (or anyone in the future). If so have you had a lawyer check into this and/or gotten an official Adobe response?

I'm also asking this because it would be good exposure to have something like this shipped with Fedora or Ubuntu, and they have certain licensing restrictions.

Thanks !

Hi Figital,

good point! We'll check this out.

I'm certainly no lawyer, but I think this bridge has already been crossed by New Atlanta with Blue Dragon and by Railo Technologies with Railo.

I don't think New Atlanta or Railo Tech had to license anything. However, it probably would be a good idea to post something on the SourceForge site requiring all contributors to follow Clean Room RE techniques:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

No one should be decompiling BlueDragon or ColdFusion binaries. All implementations need to be done based on the publically available documentation.

Certainly don't assume that other's use of those names means they are automatically usable by anyone.

In any case I would love to have the option to change a tag's two-letter prefix if I felt like it. For example, if I wanted to change all the tags to <my* instead of <cf* a tag would look like this: <myscript>.

Would also love to have access to an easy-to-use tag library mapping like <abc:set x = 1>.

No idea of the difficulty to implement but it does allow for all of the Zen™ of CFML/CFScript without limiting one to the "CFML" branding.

Cheers ....

sjf