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Release of our WordPress plugin on WordPress.org – not yet

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André Menrath

Our plugin submission to WordPress.org has just been rejected by the reviewers because they are concerned about trademark infringement by starting the plugin slug with “activitypub”.

The current name is ActivityPub Event Bridge and therefore the slug is activitypub-event-bridge. They suggest to rename it to Event Bridge for ActivityPub and adjust the slug to event-bridge-activitypub.

Should we just comply and do as they say, or should we make them reconsider that “ActivityPub” is not a trademark in this sense?

@pfefferle I would really appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this.

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7 responses to “Release of our WordPress plugin on WordPress.org – not yet”

  1. Matthias Pfefferle Avatar
    Matthias Pfefferle

    @blog phew… that's an interesting and surprising one

    1. André Menrath Avatar
      André Menrath

      @pfefferle @blog So if you don't see a blocker in keeping the name as it is, I would respond and point out that ActivityPub is not a companies name, or the name of a commercial product but a W3C protocol. I think it could be possible that reviewer never heard the term before.

      @evan (FYI)

      1. Matthias Pfefferle Avatar
        Matthias Pfefferle

        @linos @blog @evan personally I do not see a blocker here, but I am not sure if this changes something 🙂

  2. Marcus Rohrmoser Avatar
    Marcus Rohrmoser

    Hi @blog @pfefferle,
    is "they feel it violates" how reviews are done these days?

    1. André Menrath Avatar
      André Menrath

      To cite them correctly, they wrote:

      We found a possible issue about the use of trademarks in your plugin
      preventing it from being approved immediately.

      So someone is suspicious and unsure. And I can agree that it’s not the reviewer’s job to investigate further.

      Reply
  3. harce Avatar
    harce

    @blog @cwebber would you care to comment on the possible ActivityPub tradmark violation?

    Sounds like maybe someone should reach out to John Mastodon as well…

    1. harce Avatar
      harce

      @cwebber you out of the epic fedi threads yet? Your opinion would help here.

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