> ... you can't use the mark in a way that implies association with or endorsement by the Git project.
It might be worth checking with the Git project to see if they would approve this use or find it within their allowed uses.
> ... you can't use the mark in a way that implies association with or endorsement by the Git project.
It might be worth checking with the Git project to see if they would approve this use or find it within their allowed uses.
See a similar discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15991785
[0]: https://git-scm.com/trademark [1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...
> The USPTO initially rejected our application as confusingly similar to the existing trademark on GitHub, which was filed in 2008. While one might imagine where the "Git" in GitHub comes from, by the time we applied to the USPTO, both marks had been widely used in parallel for years. So we worked out an agreement with GitHub which basically says "we are mutually OK with the other trademark existing".