On 13 April 2015 at 19:19, Greg Chase <gch...@pivotal.io> wrote: > jan i <jani <at> apache.org> writes: > > > > > On Sunday, April 12, 2015, dsh <daniel.haischt <at> gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Just as a quick remark. Geode might be a trademark owned by AMD: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode_%28processor%29 > > > > Good catch, we need to hear the opinion of trademark <at> because it > depend on > > it is in an overlapping field (as I understood it). F.x. Corinthia is > > registered as a print font and hotel chain, but that was not a problem. > > > > I think it is a good proposal and the project seems to have good chances > of > > growing under the wings of apache. > > > > rgds > > jan i > > > > > The name "Geode" was thought up by the Geode contributors at Pivotal. > > Pivotal legal did a pretty extensive trademark search to ensure there would > be no infringement. It was their opinion that there is low risk of > trademark > infringement with the AMD product. > > However, its fully understandable that Apache legal needs to vet the name > of the project should it be accepted for incubation. >
Thanks for the explanation, that was what I expected, but since a slight concern has been raised, I have the following proposal. Get a statement from Pivotal legal, what they have done, and add it to the proposal. That will also give ASF trademark (not legal) a stepping stone. rgds jan I. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
