[twitter-dev] Re: Question about Twitter use in library names

2010-01-14 Thread Rich
Tweet appears to have been answered here http://blog.twitter.com/2009/07/may-tweets-be-with-you.html On Jan 13, 7:51 pm, DeWitt Clinton dclin...@gmail.com wrote: That's great news.  Thank you, Ryan. How about terms like tweet and retweet?  Or more generally, any word on the questions raised

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Question about Twitter use in library names

2010-01-14 Thread DeWitt Clinton
Right, I agree that the public statements (both Biz's post and Ryan's comment here) are all aligned with what we expected and asked for. I'm simply encouraging and hoping for the Terms to be updated to reflect that position and remove the ambiguity for library, client, and service authors.

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about Twitter use in library names

2010-01-14 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Jan 14, 8:04 am, DeWitt Clinton dclin...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, here is what the Terms (http://twitter.com/tos) currently read, effective: September 18, 2009:  All right, title, and interest in and to the Services (excluding Content provided by users) are and will remain the exclusive

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about Twitter use in library names

2010-01-01 Thread Duane Roelands
It's been four weeks since I originally asked this question. Is there any chance at all it will be answered in the near future? The time it takes to get a simple straight answer is mind-boggling. On Dec 22 2009, 11:14 am, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote: Hopefully, I haven't

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Question about Twitter use in library names

2010-01-01 Thread John Meyer
We're talking about lawyers here Duane. Straight forward is not a term that they understand. On 1/1/2010 2:31 PM, Duane Roelands wrote: It's been four weeks since I originally asked this question. Is there any chance at all it will be answered in the near future? The time it takes to get a

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about Twitter use in library names

2009-12-22 Thread Duane Roelands
Hopefully, I haven't asked a question with an unfortunate answer. When I look at the number of great libraries with Twitter in the name, it would be a real kick in the teeth to the developer community. On Dec 22, 12:09 am, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: Just wanted to follow up with

[twitter-dev] Re: Question about Twitter use in library names

2009-12-04 Thread Andy Freeman
IANAL but you might want to look do a trademark search. Some relevant links are at http://uspto.gov/ . On Dec 4, 1:39 pm, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote: A question for the Twitter team: I'm the developer and maintainer of an open source library called TwitterVB.  Can I expect