As can be seen in recent discussions the Ripple project will be retired as an Incubating Apache project. During the discussion the status of the Ripple trademark was one question that came up. I responded that if anyone wants to use the mark they would need permission from whoever owns the mark. In my preliminary evaluation of the status of the mark it did not appear that it had been transferred to the ASF on entry into the Incubator (which is the usual case).
If anyone in the community wants to reuse this mark you need to confirm with [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> that the ASF does not own the mark and, once confirmed, approach the trademark owner (Blackberry I believe). Under no circumstances should anyone use the Ripple name without obtaining permission. The code, however, can be taken under the Apache License V2 and worked on elsewhere if you so desire. Ross
