Jim Gallacher wrote:
Roy T. Fielding wrote:
On Feb 9, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Jim Gallacher wrote:
Hi Roy,
+1 approve requesting a mod_python TLP
+2 to the alterative: approve requesting a python TLP
I think that would be fine, except you will have to come up with a
name that is not "Apache Python Project". That is essentially a
trademark infringement and I know the Perl community doesn't like
the way we named Perl-Apache either. Java became Jakarta for the
same reason.
I wondered about the trademark issue.
How is it handled within the ASF if we coin a new name? Do we just come
up with a name and hope for the best or does the foundation need to
trademark it? For example I see that "Tomcat" and "Apache Tomcat" are
trademarked, but I don't see anything for Jakarta.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
On the other hand, we could always ask the PSF for permission to use
"Python" as in "The Apache Python Project". The worst that could happen
is they might so "no". Their guidelines seem fairly generous as long as
our stuff is related to the Python programming language.
http://www.python.org/psf/trademarks/
Jim
