On 04/16/2015 02:23 PM, Richard Raseley wrote: > Emilien Macchi wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I sent a patch to openstack/governance to move our project under the big >> tent, and it came up [1] that we should decide of a project name and be >> careful about trademarks issues with Puppet name. >> >> I would like to hear from Puppetlabs if there is any issue to use Puppet >> in the project title; also, I open a new etherpad so people can suggest >> some names: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/puppet-openstack-naming >> >> Thanks, >> >> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/172112/1/reference/projects.yaml,cm > > Emilien, > > I went ahead and had a discussion with Puppet's legal team on this > issue. Unfortunately at this time we are unable to sanction the use of > Puppet's name or registered trademarks as part of the project's name. > > To be clear, this decision is in no way indicative of Puppet not feeling > the project is 'worthy' or 'high quality' (in fact the opposite is > true), but rather is a purely defensive decision. > > We are in the process of reevaluating our usage guidelines, but there is > no firm timetable as of this moment.
I guess our best option is to choose a name without Puppet in the title. We will proceed to a vote after all proposals on the etherpad. Thank you for your help, > Regards, > > Richard Raseley > > SysOps Engineer > Puppet Labs > -- Emilien Macchi
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