alt Hacker NewsThis is a violation of Git's trademark, and your usage of it is expressly prohibited by their policy.
https://git-scm.com/about/trademark
> [...] you may not use any of the Marks as a syllable in a new word or as part of a portmanteau (e.g., "Gitalicious", "Gitpedia") used as a mark for a third-party product or service.
> Please be aware that GitHub and GitLab are exceptions to this Policy because they are subject to explicit licensing arrangements that pre-date, and thus take precedence, over this Policy.
You might've known that if you hadn't vibe-launched this while for some reason marketing it as anti-AI, but here we are in a world where basic research is a dead art.
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I mean OK, valid, and they really should get on it.
But you are squinting really hard if you equate "programmers not being good lawyers" with "they obviously vibe-launched the product".
Git is open source/public domain. Trademarks don't apply to it.
I’d love to hear an IP lawyer weigh in on this, because I’ve never heard of this kind of thing before. It doesn’t seem correct that you can use trademark alone like this to extend beyond the actual word used in the trademark. Maybe it’s from licensing or something, ie maybe if a product uses the actual git product, then the git license means you can’t use the name as part of a word.