Thankfully for you, you are not on the PMC... if you were on the PMC and you did such a search you would then have to go and send C&Ds.
/me runs away from this thread in case I happen to be made aware of any trademark misuse ;-) On 10 October 2014 13:39, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes > > On 10 October 2014 13:12, Michael Osipov <1983-01...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> If you do a quick search on Central, you'll that even other Apache project >> don't adhere to this convention. Should they receive a C&D too? >> >> Michael >> >> > We just need to show best effort to defend our trademark... if we *see* >> > anyone doing that then we have to send them C&D letters... >> > >> > Note: my understanding is that we only have to send C&D letters when we >> > know somebody is abusing our mark... we don't necessarily have to go >> > actively looking for people abusing our mark... just if we went looking >> and >> > found any then we have to send them C&Ds quite quickly >> > >> > On 10 October 2014 12:45, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Stephen Connolly >> > > <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > > We, the PMC, agreed to allow permitted usage of the form >> ___-maven-plugin >> > > > as that clarified that the plugin was a plugin for maven not one >> produced >> > > > by maven >> > > >> > > Yea, I know, and I'm not opposed to making the tooling more >> > > obstreperous. I'm just warning people not to have high hopes of >> > > enforcement for anyone who chooses to hack the tooling and not >> > > cooperate. >> > > >> > > > >> > > > On 10 October 2014 12:40, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> >> > > wrote: >> > > > >> > > >> Keep in mind that what we have here is almost certainly a >> > > >> _convention_, not a point of trademark law. As I understand it, >> we'd >> > > >> as likely be laughed at for the suggestion that reversing the >> order of >> > > >> the components of a name leads to 'marketplace confusion' at the >> level >> > > >> at which trademarks can be enforced. >> > > >> >> > > >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Michael Osipov < >> 1983-01...@gmx.net> >> > > >> wrote: >> > > >> >> They should rename going forward. >> > > >> >> >> > > >> >> At some point (probably we could do so now) we will turn on >> > > enforcement >> > > >> in >> > > >> >> the maven-plugin-plugin. >> > > >> > >> > > >> > This will of course piss of a lot of people. Wouldn't it? >> > > >> > >> > > >> > There are, of course, several reasons why people can't: >> > > >> > >> > > >> > 1. Popularity of the old name >> > > >> > 2. Technical reasons >> > > >> > 3. Name collisions >> > > >> > >> > > >> > etc. >> > > >> > >> > > >> > Even if we enforce this, this should not happen before Maven 4 >> and >> > > >> should be added to the plugin dev center. >> > > >> > >> > > >> > Michael >> > > >> > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> > > >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > >> > >> > > >> >> > > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > >> > > >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> >
