Taking a quick look at PX4 it looks like it would be an issue, however it's one that easily fixed in a number of ways. It's not urgent to fix now.
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, 09:57 David Sidrane, <david.sidr...@nscdg.com> wrote: > Nope! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Nutt [mailto:spudan...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 1:43 PM > To: dev@nuttx.apache.org > Subject: Re: Future Trademark Issues > > > > I was skimming https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ and I see > > several things that might have impact in the future. > > > > First, there is the *What is the "confusing similarity" or "likelihood > > of confusion" test? *Certainly the versions of NuttX destributed in > > the Motorola MDK and Google Ara under the name NuttX are not the same > > as the same NuttX that you would get from Apache. I think that fails > > the "confusing similarity" test. > > > > What about PX4? Doesn't PX4 carry modifications to the OS at > > github.com/PX4/NuttX? If so, you will probably need to change the > > name to PX4OS or something like that in the future. > > > > There are similar issues for nuttx.org and nuttx.events under *Using > > Apache Trademarks in domain names* at the same reference. There could > > also be a conflict with NuttX2020 and paragraph *Using Apache > > Trademarks in relation to conferences and events* > > > > I think we don't have to be concerned about these things until we > > graduate. But Apache is going to take a stronger position than I > > have. My test has always been the good guy/bad guy test: If you are > > a "good guy" doing "good things" then I let people do most whatever > > they want with the name, short of creating their own OS fork and > > calling it NuttX. > > > > Greg > > > Project Ara is here: https://github.com/projectara/nuttx (defunct) > > Motoroloa MDK is here: https://github.com/MotorolaMobilityLLC/nuttx (not > recently updated) > > PX4 is here: https://github.com/PX4/nuttx > > A few of many others: https://github.com/micro-ROS/NuttX, > https://github.com/ros2/ros2_embedded_nuttx, https://github/NuttX, ... > There are numerous repositories called NuttX from individuals. >
