[Twisted-Python] suggestions for naming to help us preserve a Twisted trademark
Hello, Twisted community: I'd really like "twisted" (and our various "dot product" subprojects) to be a trademark that the software freedom conservancy can protect and defend. For similar reasons, I'd like to have an unambiguous naming convention for projects which are *part* of Twisted versus those which are built on it or are compatible with it. There are a few projects out there that just call themselves "py- whatever" but use Twisted (for some reason, none come to mind at the moment); that's fine, of course. The jabber transports which use Twisted are pyMSNt, pyICQt; I'm not sure if the "t" stands for "transport" or "twisted" :). There are also a few projects out there called "Twisted Whatever" which aren't part of Twisted; I can only hope that more projects will want to advertise their association with Twisted in this way. I'd like to suggest, however, that new projects use the word "Twisty" in this context rather than the hopefully trademarked "Twisted". i.e. if you are making an implementation of the protocol Bloobloo and want to give it a name associated with Twisted, please describe it as "Twisty Bloobloo: an implementation of bloobloo for Twisted", and name your packages similarly (twistybloobloo.stuff). Sun has a great webpage about how to use their trademarks in this capacity: http://www.sun.com/policies/trademarks/. I'm aware of 3 projects which are currently called "Twisted X" but are not actually a part of Twisted. The first is Twisted Goodies, which was named with our explicit permission. I appreciate that Ed asked first, and so he is welcome to continue using that name. (I'd still prefer that it be changed to "Twisty Goodies" just to help establish the convention and reduce potential user confusion, but realistically there has not been any actual user confusion about that package, and packages with our explicit permission I don't believe weaken our copyright claim.) Two other things that I'm aware of using names like this, however, do not have our permission, and if those authors are listening here (or if someone who knows the authors here could get in touch with them) I'd really like their names to be changed: Twisted SNMP and Twisted Storage. Most of all though I hope that all 1000-odd subscribers to this list have their own soon-to-be-released project which can make use of this new convention ;). Also, if a graphic designer out there could help with a modified version of the logo that could be used in the way that the Debian "open use" images, that would be helpful: http://www.debian.org/logos/#open-use
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Andrew Bennetts
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Chris Miles
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Christian Simms
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Drew Smathers
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Duncan McGreggor
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Gabriel Rossetti
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glyph@divmod.com
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Jack Moffitt
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Jonathan Lange
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Kuba Konczyk
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L. Daniel Burr
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Michael
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Mike Pelletier
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Nathan
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Phil Christensen
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Simon Pickles
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Stephen Waterbury
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Steve Holden
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Tim Stebbing
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Trent Nelson