What about "Sagemath"? That's already used for the URLs, and doesn't deviate too much from "Sage". I assume people could keep calling it Sage as long as the official branding was changed.
On Thursday, 31 May 2012 08:06:43 UTC-7, William wrote: > > Hello, > > As Sage grows, we may have to face more and more crap like [1] and > possibly attacks from others, which might force us to completely > change the name of our project to have nothing to do with "sage", > which would wreak havoc on google searches, etc. To stop this before > it is too late, I talked with a patent/trademark attorney at > University of Washington yesterday. To my pleasant surprise, they are > willing to do all the work and pay the costs associated with > trademarking Sage in some context of what we are doing (whatever turns > out to make sense from a legal perspective). They are also willing to > sell the trademark to me later, if I should so desire. Having the > trademark owned by UW instead of me personally is I think much more > useful, since UW is a huge enterprise with the resources to actually > defend the trademark. > > The current common law owners of the trademark are the community of > Sage developers. Thus I'm writing to ask if anybody who has > significantly contributed to Sage has any major objections to me > working with my university to officially trademark the name. Due to > UW's patent/trademark attorney leaving UW soon for another job, this > has to happen ASAP if it is going to happen, so please respond by ** > Monday, June 4 **. (Emailing me offlist at wst...@uw.edu is fine > too.) > > [1] http://www.sagetrac.org/ > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
