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
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 > >
