Podlings are not part of the Foundation (yet), so cannot get trademark registrations.
The Trademark/Brand peeps will assist with looking at the future possibility, post-graduation. On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> wrote: > On 30 November 2016 at 09:51, Ian Dunlop <ianwdun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I saw the following on trademark registrations > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/register#register and wondered if > > this was possible for incubator projects or only for those which have > > graduated. Any ideas? > > I think it makes most sense for graduated projects; a podling project > is not guaranteed to graduate from the Incubator and might choose to > say move to a GitHub-only model. This could then require a project > rename beyond removing "Apache", as ASF would have the trademark > registration and there might not be a new legal entity to move the > trademark to. > > But that said, I don't think there's anything stopping such a > registration for podlings - not sure if policy-wise that would need to > include "(incubating)", which perhaps would look odd in a trademark. > > > -- > Stian Soiland-Reyes > http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
