The former is a trademark question to ask when deciding to use a brand. Something Amazon would have considered but as Gluon isn't an Apache brand it's not something Apache have considered. If the brand was 'transferring' to Apache then it is something we should do.
Are you saying that trademarks for MXNet has been registered by other companies? Hen On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 1:27 AM Leonard Lausen <l-softw...@lausen.nl> wrote: > Carin recently noted that gluonhq.com already uses the Gluon brand for > end-to-end enterprise mobile solution and Marco found that they do so > apparently since at least 2015. Do you see any impact on the Gluon brand > for deep learning models? > > The MXNet brand is currently also unregistered by Apache (but registered > by various other companies), whereas for example Tensorflow is > registered by Google LLC in a variety of jurisdictions. Trademarks > registered under the Madrid System can be found at > https://www3.wipo.int/branddb/en/ > > Best regards > Leonard > > Hen <bay...@apache.org> writes: > > > Amazon. Amazon created the brand. They own the first repository to use > the > > term in this conext ( https://github.com/gluon-api ). There was some > > involvement from Microsoft, so Microsoft's opinion may also be relevant. > > Gluon is not an Apache Software Foundation nor Apache MXNet brand. > > > > Unless it was very recent, I don't believe there have been any trademark > > registrations. If Amazon would prefer Apache control the Gluon naming, I > > think the simplest 'act' to make that so would be to move the gluon-api > > repository over to ASF control. > > > > Hen > > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 8:27 AM Chris Olivier <cjolivie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Who is the gluon “Brand Owner”? > >> > >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:43 AM Chris Olivier <cjolivie...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Who is the gluon "brand owner"? > >> > > >> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:13 AM Qing Lan <lanking...@live.com> > wrote: > >> > > >> >> Hi Lieven, > >> >> > >> >> Thanks for your comments. After the discussion with several > committers > >> >> and contributors offline, we agreed that there are space for > >> improvement. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> 1. About the Gluon naming > >> >> > >> >> As we know, Gluon is born with the unique API design pattern. It > >> >> gradually became the dominant Python front end for MXNet. I would > >> suggest > >> >> to discuss more with the Brand owner and see if there could be a > further > >> >> integration with MXNet. To MXNet itself, it becomes more popular with > >> this > >> >> frontend. We lean on the strong community and improve our product > >> better by > >> >> consuming the feedback from it. > >> >> > >> >> 2. Diversity of the PMC > >> >> Currently, we have 40 PMC numbers from different companies, like > Amazon, > >> >> Uber, NVIDIA, ByteDance and a lot more. We are trying to grow the > number > >> >> and invite indivials from different companies as well as research > >> institute. > >> >> > >> >> 3. Release rotation > >> >> In the history, most of the releases were done by the Amazon side. > >> >> Currently, we are moving on to rotate this responsibility with > >> >> contributors/committers not from Amazon to start working on them. > >> >> > >> >> 4. Committers from different firm/institution should have real > work > >> >> on MXNet > >> >> I can tell from the issues/PRs/rfcs they submitted and indeed and > indeed > >> >> we should encourage the committers who is less active to be involved > >> into > >> >> MXNet contribution. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks, > >> >> Qing > >> >> > >> >> ________________________________ > >> >> From: Lieven Govaerts <l...@mobsol.be> > >> >> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2019 5:59 > >> >> To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org <dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org> > >> >> Cc: d...@mxnet.apache.org <d...@mxnet.apache.org> > >> >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Apache MXNet: Path to graduation > >> >> > >> >> Hi Qing, > >> >> > >> >> as a user and ASF member observing this project: > >> >> > >> >> On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 01:44, Qing Lan <lanking...@live.com> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > Hi All, > >> >> > > >> >> > I would like to start a thread to discuss about the graduation for > >> >> Apache > >> >> > MXNet. From my time working in the community, I saw a great > >> improvement > >> >> in > >> >> > most of the area that we do to make MXNet a better place. We keep > >> >> tracking > >> >> > on all of the issues user raised and reviewing PRs. We follow the > >> Apache > >> >> > Way to release the package in official repository. > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> in terms of code, documentation, visibility this project is certainly > >> in a > >> >> healthy state, I see a lot of interest of companies and people, the > >> >> community is growing... As a user that gives me confidence my time > >> >> invested > >> >> in this product is well spent. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > In 2017, Apache MXNet joined the Apache incubation project. I think > >> now > >> >> is > >> >> > a good time to review the path to graduate MXNet and move forward > to > >> it. > >> >> > Please feel free to share your thoughts on graduation and space for > >> >> > improvement. > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> If I may share one observation: I don't see the community working a > lot > >> on > >> >> non-code topics. One example that I personally find important is the > >> >> discussion of the Gluon brand. People have expressed confusion about > how > >> >> the name is used by multiple non-ASF projects, the MXNet team finds > the > >> >> Gluon name very valuable yet the discussion on how to protect the > name > >> and > >> >> decide on acceptable use by other projects has stalled [1]. I suggest > >> you > >> >> make a decision on this topic before you go for graduation. > >> >> > >> >> regards, > >> >> > >> >> Lieven > >> >> > >> >> [1] > >> >> > >> >> > >> > https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/mxnet-dev/201903.mbox/%3ccac_cu1gi+3s6ob48kt0x5wta4oxdum8uq9tmnyku2ujyaya...@mail.gmail.com%3e > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > You can find more about graduation policy in here: > >> >> > https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html > >> >> > > >> >> > Thanks, > >> >> > Qing > >> >> > > >> >> > >> > > >> >
