So does anyone want to do this? I'd like to see Ripple up on GitHub
and I'd be happy to help manage it, but I frankly give two hoots about
the name itself. If there is someone who knows a contact at Blackberry
to ask, cool, otherwise, I say we just pick some random new name and
put it up on GitHub.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Ross Gardler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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



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