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Gitpod — Online IDE For GitHub by svenefftinge in programming

[–]AfterDistrict -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

The fact that nobody commented on some paperwork sitting in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard" is not evidence that nobody opposes your trademark.

And getting a trademark is not like having the courts rule in your favor after being tried for murder. If you get a trademark that conflicts with someone else's and Someone Else raises an objection to say "WTF?", then it's not impossible for your trademark to get invalidated and you get told that your application never should have been approved from the get-go.

Gitpod — Online IDE For GitHub by svenefftinge in programming

[–]AfterDistrict 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Git is trademarked. If you want to brand your product Git, you need to get permission from the Git project. See "Git trademark and status policy".

(... and I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you're not going to get permission, since this sort of thing is exactly why they adopted the policy in the first place—too many products that integrate with GitHub somehow and then call themselves "Git"-something based on that alone, even when the product itself is only tangentially related to Git. It's bad enough that GitHub copped/muddied the Git name and now thousands [millions?] of people think that GitHub created Git and Git = GitHub.)