On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 18:38 +0200, Jochen Theodorou wrote: > […] > > I wonder if one point might be missing: checking the name of the > project > for trademarks. > > Which is imho also a point we have to still clear officially. how do > we > do that again?
As far as I am aware, but I am not a lawyer, in England and Wales, and Scotland, you cannot trademark a word per se. So at least in this jurisdiction I cannot imagine anyone has any form of trademark on "Groovy"; it wouldn't be allowed. On the other hand, the Groovy logo, whilst not formally registered anywhere as far as I know, will have de facto trademark status for having been used unchallenged for many years. To change the logo to somehow incorporate Apache explicitly will be non-trivial. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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