Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mnlI4-0002AU-1x for pgsql-novice@arkaria.postgresql.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:33:40 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mnlI2-0004Cn-WC for pgsql-novice@arkaria.postgresql.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:33:39 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mnlI2-0004Cb-O4 for pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:33:38 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mnlHz-0005it-Nk for pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:33:38 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 1AIHXWNZ2924262; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:33:32 -0500 From: Tom Lane To: Bruce Momjian cc: Laurenz Albe , Jean Baro , pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: Naming projects for Postgresql ONLY. In-reply-to: <20211118173013.GB12936@momjian.us> References: <20211118173013.GB12936@momjian.us> Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian message dated "Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:30:13 -0500" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2924260.1637256812.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:33:32 -0500 Message-ID: <2924261.1637256812@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Bruce Momjian 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. regards, tom lane