From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD54E1F453 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:22:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729907AbeIRX4O (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2018 19:56:14 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:52378 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1729782AbeIRX4O (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2018 19:56:14 -0400 Received: (qmail 10947 invoked by uid 109); 18 Sep 2018 18:22:25 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:22:25 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 9884 invoked by uid 111); 18 Sep 2018 18:22:23 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) SMTP; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:22:23 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:22:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:22:22 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Christian Couder Cc: David Aguilar , git , git@sfconservancy.org Subject: Re: Git trademark status and policy Message-ID: <20180918182222.GA24448@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20180916101520.GC18517@gmail.com> <20180917032101.GD22024@sigill.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:25:31AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote: > > (Also, to be clear, this is all _only_ about "Git Cola". The "git-cola" > > command is explicitly OK in the policy because that's how commands > > work). > > I agree about "git-cola" though I wonder about "git-dag" as this is > another command used by the project that is more generic. For example > I could imagine that, if we wanted to provide a shortcut for `git log > --graph --decorate --oneline`, we might want to use `git dag`. > > I guess we can still recommend to change it if possible, though we can > also acknowledge that, as our recommendation comes very late (too > late?), it is just a "weak" recommendation. Yeah, I agree with you, though I think it is a separate issue. "git-dag" is explicitly OK in the trademark policy, and they are not using "Git Dag" in any recognizable way. So I think there is no trademark issue, but "git-dag" is probably just not a great idea in general, because the namespace is open and it is likely to get stomped by some other project. Or git itself. Or it may even be annoying for users who have a "git dag" alias (on-disk commands always override aliases). So I think we should generally recommend against such generic names during the naming phase. At this point, I'm not sure the pain of changing now is any less than the pain of changing later if and when there's a conflict. I think I'm actually violently agreeing with you, but I wanted to make it clear. :) (And everything else in your email seemed sensible, too). -Peff