Nope!

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Nutt [mailto:spudan...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 1:43 PM
To: dev@nuttx.apache.org
Subject: Re: Future Trademark Issues


> I was skimming https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ and I see
> several things that might have impact in the future.
>
> First, there is the *What is the "confusing similarity" or "likelihood
> of confusion" test? *Certainly the versions of NuttX destributed in
> the Motorola MDK and Google Ara under the name NuttX are not the same
> as the same NuttX that you would get from Apache.  I think that fails
> the "confusing similarity" test.
>
> What about PX4?  Doesn't PX4 carry modifications to the OS at
> github.com/PX4/NuttX?  If so, you will probably need to change the
> name to PX4OS or something like that in the future.
>
> There are similar issues for nuttx.org and nuttx.events under *Using
> Apache Trademarks in domain names* at the same reference.  There could
> also be a conflict with NuttX2020 and paragraph *Using Apache
> Trademarks in relation to conferences and events*
>
> I think we don't have to be concerned about these things until we
> graduate.  But Apache is going to take a stronger position than I
> have.  My test has always been the good guy/bad guy test:  If you are
> a "good guy" doing "good things" then I let people do most whatever
> they want with the name, short of creating their own OS fork and
> calling it NuttX.
>
> Greg
>
Project Ara is here: https://github.com/projectara/nuttx (defunct)

Motoroloa MDK is here: https://github.com/MotorolaMobilityLLC/nuttx (not
recently updated)

PX4 is here: https://github.com/PX4/nuttx

A few of many others:  https://github.com/micro-ROS/NuttX,
https://github.com/ros2/ros2_embedded_nuttx, https://github/NuttX, ...
There are numerous repositories called NuttX from individuals.

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