The trademark policy in question was just a draft and we haven't heard anything about it moving beyond draft since.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:14 PM, PanierAvide <panierav...@riseup.net> wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out. I'm clearly not an expert of legal issues, > so the following may probably not make sense. > > <developer nonsense> > The goal of this tool is to help new contributors, and making them more > easily start contributing to OSM. If we give it an obscure name, not > referring to OSM, then where is the link between this tool and OSM ? I > understand legal issues, but I hope that we don't loose of sight that we > are a community project, and we need some form of cohesion. Our tools don't > share so much except that they edit OSM data or help people doing so. > According to this policy, JOSM should have been named instead "Java Editor > for you-know-which-map-I'm-talking-about" ? Doesn't make sense to me. > > However, if there is a way to keep the name and sign some sort of > contract, implying that I will not misuse the name or so, no problem, that > would be fair. But let's keep the fun in creating tools for OSM, and not > being able to name it using OSM is clearly boring plus misleading for users. > </developer nonsense> > > Thanks for reading this nonsense, I'm totally open to find a way to solve > this potential naming issue, if someone can give me some hints about it, it > would be great. >
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