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Re:Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hos... by vivekweb2013 on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:09AM (#31581290)
GitJournal is nice. Just wanted to check with whats your opinion about this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31580996

Did you get the permission for using "Git" mark?

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Re:Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hos... by vhanda on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:34AM (#31582351)
I didn't know it was required.

I'll shoot them an email and ask, and start thinking of a different name. In the case of Gitea [0], there doesn't seem to have been any response.

Thanks for bringing this up. Though I wonder how well can "Software Freedom Conservancy" claim "GitSomething" is not allowed when there are clearly so so many projects doing it. Eg - Gitolite / Gittea. Trademarks are only so good as long as they are enforced.

[0] - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4175

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