Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-23 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jul 22, 2009, at 3:31 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: 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 :) Just closing the loop on

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-23 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Jim Jagielskij...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jul 22, 2009, at 3:31 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: 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,

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-23 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jul 22, 2009, at 3:31 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: 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 :) Just

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-23 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/7/23 Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com: On Jul 22, 2009, at 3:31 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: Are we cool with the name 'wookie' as a mark?? ... Just closing the loop on the various trademark debates being done on prc@ and members@, of course. It's called

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-23 Thread David Crossley
Ross Gardler wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: Are we cool with the name 'wookie' as a mark?? ... Just closing the loop on the various trademark debates being done on prc@ and members@, of course. It's called oversight. Thanks

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

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-21 Thread Andrew Savory
Hi, 2009/7/20 Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org: In my opinion this is sufficient for the ASF to accept this contribution (once (i)CLAs are in place). Speak up if you think differently. Looks good. You might want to cc the wookie-dev list, so this important information becomes part of the

Re: Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-21 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/7/21 Andrew Savory s...@andrewsavory.com: Hi, 2009/7/20 Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org: In my opinion this is sufficient for the ASF to accept this contribution (once (i)CLAs are in place). Speak up if you think differently. Looks good. You might want to cc the wookie-dev list, so

Wookie IP clearance

2009-07-20 Thread Ross Gardler
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 a copy of the consortium agreement and can confirm that it says: The Parties agree to disseminate