On 14 Jul 2017, at 23:26, Dave King <djk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 6. Trademarks. This License does not grant permission to use the trade names, > trademarks, service marks, or product names of the Licensor, except as > required for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of the > Work and reproducing the content of the NOTICE file. > > So At minimum I read that as there would need to be a new product name, and > the docs for that product could say formerly known as Riak.
You are lawyer? > > - Peace > Dave > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Russell Brown <russell.br...@mac.com> wrote: > > On 14 Jul 2017, at 23:17, Dave King <djk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Looks like Basho has the trademark on Riak. > > http://www.trademarkia.com/riak-77954950.html > > They sure do. And if you look at the Apache2 license you’ll see that it > grants use of the name to identify the source. > > Look, I’m not a lawyer, and I’m guessing you’re not a lawyer. What difference > does the name or trademark make? There are a bunch of active users of Riak, > some of whom have made it clear they plan to continue using it. Dance on > Basho’s grave all you want, but Riak isn’t dead yet. > > > > > - Peace > > Dave > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Alexander Sicular <sicul...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Jul 14, 2017, at 11:32, Russell Brown <russell.br...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > > > What do you mean “encumbered”? Riak is the name of an Apache2 licensed > > > open source database, so it can continue to be used to describe that > > > apache 2 licensed database, please don’t spread FUD. > > > > You willing to invest time in a project that could be legally encumbered at > > some point in the future because lawyers? You willing to put that beyond > > the clown fiesta that is Basho? I don't think so. > > _______________________________________________ > > riak-users mailing list > > riak-users@lists.basho.com > > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
