Awesome, thanks. Will try to track this (completely random) person (who AFAIK I don’t know at all, which is great, the more new people involved the better) down.
Gj On Monday, July 30, 2018, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:55 PM Geertjan Wielenga > <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > > https://github.com/Webbiefourth/Apache-Netbeans-9.0-MacOSX ... > > Note that in terms of Apache trademarks "Apache-Netbeans-9.0-MacOSX" > is not an appropriate name for something that's not from Apache. > > It should rather be called something like "MacOSX Launcher for Apache > NetBeans" which removes the possible confusion. > > It's a small thing in this case, but if the NetBeans (P)PMC does not > actively protect their trademark in general it can be much harder to > defend it if a more serious case comes up - which is more likely for a > project that NetBeans which has a large audience than for some of our > obscure Apache infrastructure projects that are hard to explain to my > grandmother. > > There's more detail at > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ > http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/ > > For now, if the owner of that GitHub repository reads this it would be > nice to change the name (no big deal - sorry that you are being used > as an example for such a minor thing) and NetBeans (P)PMC members > please take note of the importance of protecting your trademark. > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
