[wp-forums] On the subject of Trademarks

[Chip Bennett]

FWIW: the Theme Review Team has analogous rules for Theme names - for
analogous reasons. :)


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:

> Totally unrelated to trademarks... We no longer accept plugins with
> 'WordPress' in the slug, for what we consider kinda obvious reasons. We
> also reject 'plugin' as a slug for similar reasons.
>
> You're listed on the WPORG plugin repo. Odds are you're a WordPress Plugin.
>
> #justsaying
>
>
> VoodooPress wrote:
>
>>
>> WordPress.org/about/domains
>> On Jul 16, 2013 2:00 PM, "Andrew2.Nevins"<Andrew2.**Nevins at live.uwe.ac.uk<Andrew2.Nevins at live.uwe.ac.uk>
>> >
>> wrote:
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>>
>>> If someone uses "WordPress" in a directory name, i.e "
>>> http://example.com/wordpress/" is that against WordPress' trademark?
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