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Was this developed in part by the OSRF? If not you may have a trademark problem on your hands regarding the naming.[0] As nice to have as name puns are, I cont
by moffkalast 3y ago
Was this developed in part by the OSRF? If not you may have a trademark problem on your hands regarding the naming.[0]
As nice to have as name puns are, I contacted them for permission of a similar kind of pun name for a package earlier this year and unfortunately they couldn't approve it. Probably for the best since the name I came up with as a replacement was much better in the end lol. But you'll probably need to change this to something like "Scribe for ROS" or similar or you'll get a notice to cease and desist eventually. ROS-Mobile almost did before it got discontinued.
[0] https://www.ros.org/imgs/TrademarkRulesAndGuidelines2022.pdf https://www.ros.org/imgs/TrademarkRulesAndGuidelines2022.pdf
- RoboticTech 3y agoThanks for letting me know. I still feel like it shouldn't be a problem to have a name like that, especially for an open source project. I will double check.
- moffkalast 3y agoYeah I figured it would be cool as long as it's non-commercial, but I was wrong too. I guess they're kinda forced to protect the trademark by the established guidelines or they'll lose it, but they also don't want to discourage people from developing stuff so they're not super heavy handed about it.
- RoboticTech 3y agoMay I ask what was the name of your package that wasn't approved?
- moffkalast 3y agoAh sure, it was OutdooROS i.e. a web visualizer for outdoor ROS robots. Later renamed to Vizanti. The two examples I cited in my appeal were MAVROS and ROS Mobile, and yeah turns out the former is actually maintained by OSRF and the latter was in breach of guidelines.