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
wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:55 PM Geertjan Wielenga
> 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
>
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