Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > Martin Cooper wrote: > > > > The status page template includes a bullet item that states, in part: > > > > "check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already > > trademarked for an existing software product" > > > > How do we go about this? The CSC web site wants me to call them to have an > > account set up, but surely we're not all setting up accounts for one-time > > use, are we? I just want to complete the check for the PhotArk podling. > > i'm not sure that we have a good answer to this question ATM > > maybe we need to rephrase this - how can the incubator ensure that a > name is not already trademarked for an existing software product?
I agree. I took the liberty of changing the subject of this thread. Recently i tried to summarise the various discussions on this topic. See the page: "Choosing names for ASF projects" http://www.apache.org/dev/project-names.html I have passed it by the legal-discuss mail list, but only received some general comments so far. "document: Choosing names for ASF projects" http://markmail.org/message/6wtfz3xjukt3gugl -David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
