Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:38:28 -0500
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, Jean Baro <jfbaro@gmail.com>,
	pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Naming projects for Postgresql ONLY.
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 12:33:32PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.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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