You are changing the name, or someone at Apache told you the current name is okay?
If someone at Apache told you it was okay, who was that? You are certainly not using the Solr mark in an approved manner and I'd hope if you are going to take advantage of our mailing list for promotion of your product, that you would not violate our trademark. You are already on shaky ground promoting a Solr fork on the Solr mailing list by announcing every release - naming your fork something with Solr in it puts you over the edge on my list. We don't allow people to name their products things like "Solr: the wonder edition" or anything along those lines. Solr is our trademark and third party products must have their own name. The only thing we allow is the phrase "powered by Solr". I'm on the Lucene/Solr PMC and am an Apache member and I'd find it pretty hard to believe that anyone would suggest that your usage is a correct usage of the Solr trademark. - Mark On Jul 24, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Nagendra Nagarajayya wrote: > Thanks Mark! I am already working with Apache Software Foundation on the mark > and am using the correct usage of the mark as suggested by them. > > Regards, > > Nagendra Nagarajayya > http://solr-ra.tgels.org > http://rankingalgorithm.tgels.org > > > On 7/23/2012 12:15 PM, Mark Miller wrote: >> On Jul 23, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Nagendra Nagarajayya wrote: >> >>> I am not sure why any one will get offended by an announcement that NRT >>> functionality was available with older releases. >> FWIW, I'm not offended - I don't mind if third parties post announcements if >> they are related to Solr. >> >> I just want to make sure it's very clear that it's a third party announce so >> there is no confusion - people that don't follow the lists on a daily basis >> read these things. A lot of these emails end up archived on various sites >> that collect mailing lists. It's easy to run into them without the proper >> context. >> >> I think part of the confusion is the naming. Technically, Apache does not >> allow the use of Apache marks as part of a third party name. Instead, the >> name should be something like "Product X, powered by Solr" >> >> See http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/#products >> >> - Mark Miller >> lucidimagination.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > - Mark Miller lucidimagination.com
