There's a financial aspect to this and it's a similar one we made in the EE4J PMC on the brand name.
On brand name there was no way we could trademark search all 300 or so entries we got, so we narrowed them down using taste and searched those. Many of them still failed and we were left with a subset. There was really no other way to do it because the cost to trademark search all 300 was far outside of obtainable and probably not the best use of funds; you could put on a conference for that amount of money. What went up for vote was fully searched in deep detail so that if the community picked it we could actually use it.
That factor does exist here as well. Fully scanning one logo is at least 1-2 hours of legal work. Roughly 55 logos is 55-110 hours of Lawyer time. That's a bit much for a non-profit to pay for.
Yanking the entries that nod to Jakarta the location based on the broad legal advice does narrow it down a bit, but 40+ (making that number up) entries is still too many.
We're not just taking over Java EE, we're taking over paying for Java EE as well. We're not used to thinking about it.
Whatever the cost for screening, I'll personally donate from my own pocket enough so we can have at least one more choice. Anyone else?
-- David Blevins 310-633-3852
Right. Some were removed for legal reasons but the rest was a subjective decision by the marketing team.
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