data-apis/governance

Is a trademark needed?

rgommers opened this issue · 2 comments

rgommers commented

@aregm said in gh-2: ".... Better to be a free specification to be used by all interested parties, but closed to the change and rebranding."

The rebranding part of that seems to suggest using a trademark. I'm not too worried about this early on (it's hard to get people to put significant effort into this stuff), but it's a conversation worth having now indeed.

amueller commented

I think both the likelihood of someone trying to take any brand we create and the possible damage that could do is very small, so I'm not too worried.

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rgommers commented

No one seems to be worried about this, nor has it been brought up again since 2020. So closing this issue - we can always revisit it in the future if there's a concrete need to do so. Thanks all!