William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > Scroll back through the original thread. The point not collisions. > I have a really good chance of getting away with the software project > "Apache Kleenex" because the Kleenex registration refers to a paper > product, not a software product. > > But it does not matter that your software product only shares part of a name > with another software product, or that the two types of software do entirely > different thing. The question is always one of confusion (deliberate or > otherwise).
Very good point Bill. We should expand item 3 in the list [1]. Jsecurity people, that is a set of guidelines that i created by scouring the relevant Apache mail archives on this topic. Perhaps it will help. [1] Choosing names for ASF projects http://www.apache.org/dev/project-names.html -David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
