On Nov 23, 2010, at 5:29 PM, David Wang wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ralph Goers > <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>wrote: > >> >> On Nov 23, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: >> >>> On 11/23/2010 04:44 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: >>>> On Nov 23, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Dan Peterson wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello all, >>>>> >>>>> We'd like to propose Wave for entry into the ASF incubator. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Did Google have any trademarks on Wave and are they allowing them to be >> transferred to the ASF? >>> >>> Certainly looks like they do have a trademark on "Google Wave", I don't >> know if that affects this project though, since as far as I can tell, it's >> changing names to "Wave in a Box" ? >> >> The proposal says the project is Apache Wave and the main product is Wave >> in a Box. In either case, it would be good to get confirmation that Google >> is giving up the rights to "Wave". >> > > Thanks for picking that out. I've just added a section on trademarks. > > = Trademarks = > > Google retains all rights to the trademarks "GOOGLE WAVE" and the wave > design logo, neither of which will be used in the Apache Wave project.
OK - Have they explicitly OK'd Apache Wave? While Apache Wave would certainly be unique to Apache, if Google intends to keep using Google Wave (and Wave as a shorthand) this would get very confusing. Ralph
