Personally, I would let the project decide how to move forward with the name than a bunch of us who aren't trademark lawyers. If it was something obvious, than that would make sense, but I briefly consulted our legal team internally and the name was cleared for usage since there are no marks registered and there was no likelihood of confusion.
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Jake Farrell wrote: > > Bringing back comments from a separate thread on board@ > > > > Sorry to see your vote of a -1 on the proposal due to the name. This was > > raised during the discussion phase and as stated in the discussion we are > > not against a name change, but saw it as something that was not a blocker > > to entering incubation. > > > > We did an initial name search on our own and there are no collisions on > > Mysos externally and we have two Mesos PMC members on the project that > > did > > not see any problems with the name, Dave and Vinod are both on the Mesos > > PMC. > > A note has been sent to the Mesos PMC private@ list regarding the Mysos > > proposal and the project name and asked that comments be brought back to > > here. > > I agree with Bertrand - might as well change the name *now* rather than > dealing with it at a later date. > > AIUI, Mysos is a combination of MySQL and Mesos -- which also could mean > potential TM headaches for the podling. > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier > j...@zonker.net > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Cheers, Chris Aniszczyk http://aniszczyk.org +1 512 961 6719
