Hi, On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: > The status quo is that podlings must check that their name is suitable > before graduation.
The wording of the incubator policy on this is to "check of project name for trademark issues" [1], which I think is fine. The exact ways of checking this have so far ranged from "I haven't hread of other projects with similar names" to some googling around and finally to exhaustive trademark searches, all of which I think I think are reasonable ways to meet this graduation criteria, depending on how prominent or likely to encounter trademark trouble the project really is. Thus rather than presenting the proposed process as a MUST or SHOULD for podlings, I'd rather just having it as a guide that podlings MAY follow to in case they want to make sure that they'll have a good chance to defend their project name as a trademark should the need ever arise. Many projects never expect to find themselves in such a situation (and can deal with it in case they ever do), so I'd be fine with them using a less heavy-weight means to check their name "for trademark issues". > Hopefully the document is reasonably clear that the process described > isn't the only way to get this done. Suggestions about clearer > phrasing welcomed. I'll see if I can come up with a patch with edits along the lines described above. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Minimum+Graduation+Requirements BR, Jukka Zitting --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
