Re: [IP Clearance] Clearance for IBM Query Parser Software Grant

2009-07-22 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Grant Ingersollgsing...@apache.org wrote: On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Grant Ingersollgsing...@apache.org wrote: Please review and provide lazy consensus for IBM's Query Parser Software Grant at

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-22 Thread Jim Jagielski
Are we cool with the name 'wookie' as a mark?? On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: In the wookie proposal I recommended that the consortium agreement for the donating project be examined to ensure that none of the other institutions can lay claim to any IP in the code. I now have

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-22 Thread Andrew Savory
Hi, 2009/7/22 Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com: Are we cool with the name 'wookie' as a mark?? Ahem, ITYM Apache Wookie ;-) Flipancy aside, I'm fine with it ... the Lucasfilm mark is wookiee, and there doesn't appear to be anything other than a friendly Debian hacker named wookie. I doubt he'd

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-22 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/7/22 Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com: Are we cool with the name 'wookie' as a mark?? I have done trademark searches in the UK and the US. In the US there are three dead trademarks: WOOKIES for Flavored nuts, shelled nuts, roasted nuts; processed nuts; snack mix consisting primarily of

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-22 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: Are we cool with the name 'wookie' as a mark?? How is incubator PMC to evaluate this question? Apparently the submitters are cool with it, or it would not be on their proposal :) The one thing that might be concerning is that most people will use a query such as;

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-22 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/7/22 William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net: Jim Jagielski wrote: Are we cool with the name 'wookie' as a mark?? ... The one thing that might be concerning is that most people will use a query such as; http://www.google.com/search?q=wookie+download and be lost in the approx 135k

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-22 Thread Scott Wilson
On 22 Jul 2009, at 20:31, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: The one thing that might be concerning is that most people will use a query such as; http://www.google.com/search?q=wookie+download and be lost in the approx 135k results :) Not quite as bad on that score as the River or Click or Ace

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-22 Thread Ralph Goers
I was going to propose that whatever the next project approved for the incubator is that it should be required to be named Foo. Ralph On Jul 22, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Are we cool with the name 'wookie' as a mark?? On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: In the