[Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Oct 29 18:58:11 CEST 2010

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:41:19 -0000 exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:

Brett is speaking for himself here (and he never claimed otherwise!). However, decisions about where to allow the use of the "Python" trademark are made by the Python Software Foundation.

The point is not to allow the use of a trademark ("EVE-Python" is already an use of the trademark, as are "IronPython", "Cython", "VPython", etc.), it is to respect the original project and to keep things clear. Even if there were no trademark, I think it would be wrong for a separate project to adopt the same name without agreement from the original group of contributors. I have never seen a fork which didn't change the name of the project.

Regards

Antoine.

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