Super. Thanks for bringing the trademark issue to our attention and prompting us to add the Trademarks section to the proposal.
Soren On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > Thanks. That answers my only concern. I think this would be a great addition. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 23, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Soren Lassen <so...@google.com> wrote: > >> I work for Google and I speak on the behalf of the Google Wave team. I >> can assure you that Google supports the Apache Wave proposal. We >> always wanted to transfer ownership of the open source code to the >> developer community and, with the discontinuation of development of >> Google Wave as a standalone product, we accelerated our efforts to >> spin this out in order to bring certainty to the developer community. >> Apache Wave should stand on its own without concern for Google's >> product strategies or priorities. >> >> Nonetheless, please note that Google is looking at ways to continue >> and extend wave technology in other Google products, specifically ways >> for users to access waves through Google Docs. But Google only retains >> the rights to the trademark "GOOGLE WAVE" and the wave design logo. >> Hopefully, Google will become one of many happy customers of Apache >> Wave. >> >> Soren >> >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Nov 23, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 20:47, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> ... >>>>> OK - Have they explicitly OK'd Apache Wave? While Apache Wave would >>>>> certainly be unique to Apache, if Google intends to keep using Google >>>>> Wave (and Wave as a shorthand) this would get very confusing. >>>> >>>> Don't you think that by proposing Wave to the Incubator that Google >>>> has OK'd this? >>> >>> I don't work for Google and don't know the people proposing this so no, I >>> have no idea whether Google has OK'd this. This is no different than >>> someone taking an Apache project out of the Attic and starting it somewhere >>> else using the same name without Apache on the front. IIRC we don't allow >>> that. I don't think this is paranoia but just approaching this from the >>> same set of rules that we use for our own projects. >>> >>> Ralph >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
