[MetaCRS] PROJ4 (tm)

[Jody Garnett]

I will point to this email thread and hope it is enough :)

We probably could get a trademark on PROJ (as trademarks are often for a
specific industry).

--
Jody Garnett

On 1 June 2016 at 16:38, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:

> Jody,
>
> I am not aware of a trademark. I don't see that we need one, and I am
> somewhat dubious if we could get one for something as generate as
> "Proj" or "Proj.4".
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Got an interesting request today asking about Proj4 trademark, and if the
> > name "Proj" can be used by the Proj4j project.
> >
> > I am not aware of the a trademark being obtained (although OSGeo can
> > certainly do so on behalf of the MetaCRS project). Reviewing commit
> history
> > shows an initial commit that already included a CHANGE-LOG stretching
> back
> > to 95/9/10 for "cartographic projection software" :)
> >
> > So the question is - does a TM exist for PROJ? If so who should I talk
> to,
> > if not do we want to obtain one?
> > --
> > Jody Garnett
> >
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