[CentOS] Question about trademarks

Sun Mar 9 22:06:39 UTC 2014
SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Pouar <thepouar at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've tried emailing this to centos-tm at redhat.com , but
> mailer-daemon at googlemail.com sent me this
>
> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
>
>       centos-tm at redhat.com
>
> Technical details of permanent failure:
> Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server
> for the recipient domain redhat.com by mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28].
>
> The error that the other server returned was:
> 550 5.2.1<centos-tm at redhat.com>... Mailbox disabled for this recipient
>
> So I'm emailing this to you guys
>
> I'm thinking of creating a project based on JBoss EAP the same way
> CentOS does with RHEL. Obviously I can't call it JBoss EAP so I thought
> I could call it CentAP, for Community Enterprise Application Platform.
> Will this infringe on the Red Hat and/or CentOS trademarks?
>

Given the recent discussion in the thread below [0], you probably shouldn't
name it as such.

Unless your "spin/project" becomes an official variant.
Read Johnny's response (URL below) and respond back if you have any
questions.


[0] http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-February/141070.html


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