A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark [LWN.net]

A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark

Posted Sep 14, 2021 6:58 UTC (Tue) by GoodMirek (guest, #101902)
In reply to: A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark by NYKevin
Parent article: A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark

After reading the view of the other side at https://postgresql.fund/blog/postgres-core-team-attacks-p... it seems to me more complicated than just "someone is trying to hijack the Postgres trademark".

I am wondering whether there are any untrue statements in the presented view of the other side. Doing any fact checking of the claims made there seems hard for a simple end user.

The other side (Spanish non-profit) claims to pursue their actions in order to fix perceived issues with the current state of Postgres trademark handling and lack of registration.
For sure it is pretty unfortunate if they do that without any prior attempt to fix the perceived issues together with PAC and PEU.

A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark

Posted Sep 14, 2021 18:33 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> After reading the view of the other side at https://postgresql.fund/blog/postgres-core-team-attacks-p... it seems to me more complicated than just "someone is trying to hijack the Postgres trademark".

tl;dr:

- A good question: Who is PostgreSQL?
- An... interesting" answer: me, so I registered the orphaned trademark and offered my "protection" without trying to talk to others about it first. Now the Core Team is launching an "unprecedented attack" on me, I wonder why?

Of course "me" is phrased as "the community" - on every side.

In the final conclusion:
> The Core Team should resign and call for open elections for a new Core Team.

No less. You can tell there's been some bad blood beyond this trademark issue.

The parallel between "distributed copyright" and "distributed trademark" is funny. It's all "Intellectual Property" after all? Can't wait for the "fork trademark" button on Github.