On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>wrote:
> > On Nov 23, 2010, at 5:29 PM, David Wang wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ralph Goers < > ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>wrote: > > > >> > >> On Nov 23, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: > >> > >>> On 11/23/2010 04:44 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > >>>> On Nov 23, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Dan Peterson wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hello all, > >>>>> > >>>>> We'd like to propose Wave for entry into the ASF incubator. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Did Google have any trademarks on Wave and are they allowing them to > be > >> transferred to the ASF? > >>> > >>> Certainly looks like they do have a trademark on "Google Wave", I don't > >> know if that affects this project though, since as far as I can tell, > it's > >> changing names to "Wave in a Box" ? > >> > >> The proposal says the project is Apache Wave and the main product is > Wave > >> in a Box. In either case, it would be good to get confirmation that > Google > >> is giving up the rights to "Wave". > >> > > > > Thanks for picking that out. I've just added a section on trademarks. > > > > = Trademarks = > > > > Google retains all rights to the trademarks "GOOGLE WAVE" and the wave > > design logo, neither of which will be used in the Apache Wave project. > > OK - Have they explicitly OK'd Apache Wave? While Apache Wave would > certainly be unique to Apache, if Google intends to keep using Google Wave > (and Wave as a shorthand) this would get very confusing. > > I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not so sure it is Google's place to "okay" Apache Wave. I don't see it as an issue if there is both Foo Wave and Bar Wave. The concept of a "wave" (lowercase) is such that it is meant to be able to interoperate across a distributed set of products and installations (much like email). That said, Google has already announced that development has effectively ceased on "Google Wave" as a standalone product. -Dan
