[PODLINGNAMESEARCH-107] Establish whether "Apache FreeMarker" is a suitable name

• Type: Suitable Name Search
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Podling: freemarker
• Proposed Name: Apache FreeMarker

Evidence Of Open Source Adoption

The FreeMarker project has appeared on sourceforge.net on 1999-12-17, and have become a well known name among Java template engines in the following years. Hence, by now several open source projects exist that provide FreeMarker support and thus the product name includes the world "freemarker" (such as, "JBoss Tools FreeMarker IDE", "FreeMarker Grails Plugin"), or where FreeMarker is included in the project description.

Ohloh:
Search for FreeMarker yields around 160 results:
https://www.openhub.net/p?ref=homepage&query=freemarker

SF.net:
Search for FreeMarker yields returns 49 results:
https://sourceforge.net/directory/os:windows/?q=freemarker

Github
Search for FreeMarker yields returns 651 results:
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=freemarker

Evidence Of Registration

A search on the USPTO TESS system for FreeMarker yields 0 results.

A search on EUIPO via "eSearch plus" for FreeMarker yields 0 results.

A search on www.trademarkia.com for FreeMarker yields 0 results.

• Evidence Of Use On World Wide Web: Google Search returns about 462,000 hits. The first 50 hits were checked, and are all referring to this project with the name FreeMarker.
• Assignee: Shane Curcuru
• Reporter: Dániel Dékány
• Created: 27/Jun/16 20:21
• Updated: 20/Sep/16 19:18
• Resolved: 20/Sep/16 19:18

Description

Apache FreeMarker (http://incubator.apache.org/projects/freemarker.html) is incubating since 2015-07-01. A suitable name search should be done in preparation to graduation discussion.