Hi, > The question of trademarks and groupIds has come up before ( > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/24c6270458faf64da351027cde5c74e935d6b5760b511b4e2f0c6b98@1388455319@%3Cprivate.accumulo.apache.org%3E), > but in those circumstances, the conflict was much more direct (reuse of the > "org.apache.*" groupId in maven artifacts). I would think that the > "io.fluo" groupId would clearly indicate this is a separate organization, > clearly distinct from Apache. If the simple reuse of the word "fluo" is > enough to trigger a branding issue
It can be. > , then I would imagine things like "maven-checkstyle-plugin" reusing the word > "checkstyle" while it depends on > a 3rd party "checkstyle" artifact would be similarly concerning No they are not as maven has a long history of working this way so it easily understood what’s Apache and what isn’t. This is pointed out in on one of the trademark policy pages. > Further, there's lots > of third party websites which have ASF project names in their domain name, > twitter handles, etc... If there are that’s issue and they should be looked into, for domain names policy see [1]. Thanks, Justin 1. http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/domains.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
