On 11/19/11 19:07, Gavin McDonald wrote: <snip>
> I am -0 on changing the name. RAT was simple name and meant what the product > does. Those qualities make it more difficult from a trademark perspective... > (And by now, folks know what it means to produce a 'Rat Report' , asking > folks to produce > a Creadur Report rolls off the tongue less.) "Apache Rat" is fine as a product name. There's no need to change that nor stop talking about rat reports. "Creadur" would just be the top level project name, with tentacles, whisker, rat and so on as different products. May end up releasing some "creadur" stuff to keep Maven happy. > If words like 'Apple' and 'Windows' can be tm'd I don't see why Rat should > be any different. Trademark law is quite unlike copyright. Apple and Microsoft have big marketing budgets to build and defend their trademarks. Apache doesn't. > But I don't want to hold up the graduation so above are just thoughts I > won't do anything about. Thanks Robert
