Re: Naming projects for Postgresql ONLY.

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Jean Baro <jfbaro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Naming projects for Postgresql ONLY.
Date: 2021-11-18 17:38:28
Message-ID: 20211118173828.GC12936@momjian.us
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 12:33:32PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 04:42:05PM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 13:39 -0300, Jean Baro wrote:
> >>> Please, am I allowed to use pg_** as the name of this open source project?
>
> >> I see no problem with that.
>
> > Agreed, you might want to look here:
> > https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/trademarks/
>
> Note that there is no trademark on "pg", so those policies don't
> really apply here. I concur that there's no issue with Jean
> using "pg" as a name prefix --- there are lots of other people
> doing the same.

Yes, good point.

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