Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community
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Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community
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Re: Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community
#2Interesting.
> I have registered my existing trademark on the Bundler project.
As all of this was happening I had wondered if there was going to be some kind of copyright dispute, but I guess it's gonna be trademark based.
Does anyone have any insights into how this might play out? How do trademark disputes tend to happen? (I assume this is in the US?)
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#3I appreciated the tone of this post. Not breathlessly inflammatory. Not longer than it needed to be. Just context, facts and actions.
Re: Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community
#4Careful or the big companies will copyright and trademark "Ruby Community", and it'll belong to them.
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#5Has there been any attempt from Ruby Central to undo the damage they caused? Can anyone comment on the current state of affairs?
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#6> back when “Carlhuda” was a super-prolific author of Ruby libraries, including most of the work to modularize Rails for version 3
Wow, hadn't thought about that in a while. For a laugh, go back and take a look at some of the architectural choices they were replacing.
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#7Has there been any attempt from Ruby Central to undo the damage they caused? Can anyone comment on the current state of affairs?
Still waiting for them to reschedule the Zoom call they were going to do with the community.... something tells me we'll be waiting for a while.
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#8I appreciated the tone of this post. Not breathlessly inflammatory. Not longer than it needed to be. Just context, facts and actions.
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#9Has there been any attempt from Ruby Central to undo the damage they caused? Can anyone comment on the current state of affairs?
I think this was the last statement from Ruby Central: https://youtu.be/VyCiE3GjQps?si=QgY1sa_w-59jJjQ3
This topic seems to be in a holding pattern now. People are waiting to see how Ruby Central responds. Some are hoping for the Q&A to be rescheduled or at least another statement
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#10> I have registered my existing trademark on the Bundler project.
Can someone familiar with trademark law comment on this? If I understand this post correctly, there was a merger between Ruby Together and Ruby Central at some point in the past. The combined organization was paying for some combination of developer time and server costs for the project.
Can an individual member of this merger actually go register the trademark for the project name and claim that it belongs only to them after merging the organizations and working on the project together, including financial contributions? Is this a loophole situation where neglecting to register a trademark for the group organization left an opening for someone (who is a member of the combined organization) to come in and scoop the trademark registration for themself later? After a decade of the word being used generically by the community, can anyone suddenly trademark it and claim it wasn’t a generic term at this point? Have I misunderstood something about the order of events or nature of the merger?