Web site (and maybe tool) forced to change the name

In 2017, the Directorate General for Translation, which is the part of the European Commission where translators work, decided to publish as Open Source the work we had done internally about OmegaT and some associated tools. This was not an individual decision from me, nor a permission, but an explicit request from the managers.

After a small collaboration from the colleagues, the web site was only maintained by me, I don't have the impression that I ever said the contrary. The first years I regularly received new requests done inside the DGT and published in the web site upon agreement of the Commission. But last five years such demands did not arrive anymore and the web site changed rarely, depending on the time I had to test new features.

I thought it was clear in the top page that the tools were published without any support, neither from DGT nor from me, and as far as I know they never received requests for support after 2018. But I must insist on this now. The contact form in this web site reaches me, not the European Commission.

However last month they decided that they do not want to be associated to this web site anymore, except by mentioning that they initiated it but that it does not have any link with the European Commission anymore.

I keep the right to use the web site but I must change the name and insist once again about the fact that DGT does not have any link to this web site anymore.

I regret this situation but I have no choice. I hope that those which followed me, in particular when I collaborate with the core team of OmegaT, will remember the origin of this work.

In emergency I will use the name of my company viverrinus.com, for which I am sure to have the rights, and rename as much as possible to VIV-OmegaT. For the moment I do it only in the top pages, and not yet in the downloadable files as long as I don't receive such a request. But it may change in the future.