RadialPaths name release gate

Checked on 2026-08-25. This is a practical availability screen, not legal clearance or legal advice.

Recommendation

CAUTION — suitable for release preparation. No conflicting software, package-registry, organization, commercial product, or astronomy-literature use was found for RadialPaths / radialpaths. The GitHub repository search now returns this project after its authorized rename. The caution reflects the descriptive phrase “radial paths”, which occurs as ordinary technical prose in several unrelated fields and therefore does not form a highly distinctive name.

No material collision requires the release to stop. This is an availability screen, not a formal trademark opinion.

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PyPI distribution radialpaths

The official JSON endpoint returned HTTP 404; no registered project was found

PyPI near-name radial-paths

The normalized project endpoint returned HTTP 404

conda-forge package radialpaths

The Anaconda API endpoint returned HTTP 404

GitHub account or organization radialpaths

The official user-search API returned zero matches

GitHub repository named radialpaths

The name was free immediately before migration; the current exact match is this project at RafaelSdeSouza/radialpaths

npm package radialpaths

The official registry endpoint returned HTTP 404

arXiv exact term RadialPaths

The official arXiv API query returned zero records

Crossref exact term RadialPaths

The public works API returned zero records

CRAN package radialpaths

The CRAN package database returned HTTP 404

crates.io package radialpaths

The registry returned HTTP 404

Astronomy software and literature

General and astronomy-specific exact-name searches found no package, project, or method called RadialPaths

Broader web use

“Radial paths” occurs descriptively; the nearest software result was PowerWorld’s “Find Radial Bus Paths” command, not a product or package named RadialPaths

Obvious commercial or trademark collision

No obvious exact-name software product or active exact-name commercial use was found in the public searches performed

Migration record

The release-candidate migration uses:

  1. project, distribution, and import name radialpaths;

  2. no legacy import namespace because MultiRadial had no stable public release;

  3. updated documentation, examples, notebooks, package metadata, and browser site links;

  4. a deliberately small callable root API: build_geometry and radial_profile at the package root;

  5. repository https://github.com/RafaelSdeSouza/radialpaths;

  6. canonical site https://rafaelsdesouza.com.br/radialpaths/;

  7. /multiradial/ retained only as a redirect.

Remaining release checks

  • repeat the registry and GitHub checks immediately before publication;

  • have the maintainer perform any formal trademark review considered necessary in the intended jurisdictions and classes;

  • verify the canonical import in clean wheel and source-distribution installs;

  • verify the old site redirects after deployment;

  • publish to PyPI or Zenodo only after explicit maintainer approval.

Current state: PyPI not published; Zenodo not published; remote repository renamed to RafaelSdeSouza/radialpaths; release QA in progress.