We just need to show best effort to defend our trademark... if we *see* anyone doing that then we have to send them C&D letters...
Note: my understanding is that we only have to send C&D letters when we know somebody is abusing our mark... we don't necessarily have to go actively looking for people abusing our mark... just if we went looking and found any then we have to send them C&Ds quite quickly On 10 October 2014 12:45, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Stephen Connolly > <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We, the PMC, agreed to allow permitted usage of the form ___-maven-plugin > > as that clarified that the plugin was a plugin for maven not one produced > > by maven > > Yea, I know, and I'm not opposed to making the tooling more > obstreperous. I'm just warning people not to have high hopes of > enforcement for anyone who chooses to hack the tooling and not > cooperate. > > > > > On 10 October 2014 12:40, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Keep in mind that what we have here is almost certainly a > >> _convention_, not a point of trademark law. As I understand it, we'd > >> as likely be laughed at for the suggestion that reversing the order of > >> the components of a name leads to 'marketplace confusion' at the level > >> at which trademarks can be enforced. > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Michael Osipov <1983-01...@gmx.net> > >> wrote: > >> >> They should rename going forward. > >> >> > >> >> At some point (probably we could do so now) we will turn on > enforcement > >> in > >> >> the maven-plugin-plugin. > >> > > >> > This will of course piss of a lot of people. Wouldn't it? > >> > > >> > There are, of course, several reasons why people can't: > >> > > >> > 1. Popularity of the old name > >> > 2. Technical reasons > >> > 3. Name collisions > >> > > >> > etc. > >> > > >> > Even if we enforce this, this should not happen before Maven 4 and > >> should be added to the plugin dev center. > >> > > >> > Michael > >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >> > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
