Related trademark issues.. but off-topic.
IIRC someone has already said but let me speak it again, NuttX
trademarks
will be transfer to ASF so you can not use NuttX outside ASF any more,
unless you get the permit, by sending an email to the trademarks@apache.
Yes, but the trademarks are not transferred to the ASF until we
graduate. Until then, I hold the trademark.
The transfer will make it awkward for people in future that have named
things NuttX. I think it is a legitimate use of the name if say a
repository that contains a clean mirror of NuttX uses the name, but
nothing that deviates from Apache NuttX should have a different name.
I think all use of the name will have to acknowledge that it is a
trademark of the ASF.
In the meantime, I am very tolerant of the use of the trademark. I
only hold it to prevent bad guys from doing bad things with the name,
not to limit what the good guys can do. But the ASF will be much more
strict
We have to be cautious of the use of trademarks ourselves. Many words
we toss around in messages and documents are actually trademarked and
the use of those trademarks are sometime enforced. Examples:
Linux -- trademark of Linus Torvalds
POSIX and IEEE -- trademarks of Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, Inc.
Unix -- trademark of the Open Group.
I try to avoid the use of the word Unix and will usually say
"Unix-like". I similarly avoid the use of POSIX which requires
certification before you can claim to be a POSIX OS. I usually try to
say "the portable POSIX interface" or "NuttX conforms to most POSIX
specifications." Saying that NuttX is POSIX or that NuttX is Unix is a
trademark violation.
Greg
