Niclas Hedhman wrote:
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 12:16, Alex Karasulu wrote:Yes I carefully reread the link myself and agree. Janus seems ok after all. I think its very easy to get scared looking at something with litigation written all over it.
3) Janus is a trademark of Janus International Holding Co, which has
actively defended it in other contexts:
<http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0201.html>.
Youch!
Janus is also the name of several software projects and at least oneThis is just trouble! I agree. Let's just quickly find another name for
software company. I do not consider it sufficiently free of
risk to
be used as the name of an Apache product.
this. Any recommendations would be welcome.
Janus is "God of Gates and Doorways" and a moon of Saturn was named after him in 1966.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Sat_Janus
The sited web page is about arbitration of a domain name and to regain control of such domain name. Janus Capital Group does not seem to go after every use of Janus, so it is not a matter of trademark issue;
http://www.janus-software.com/
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/database/
http://www.janus-eu.org/Temp2/index-f.htm
http://www.janusassociates.com/
http://www.janusdevelopment.com/
I think we better wait for some official legal advice on this. Meanwhile we're in limbo. Too bad I wanted a release out before the new year :(.
Alex
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