wai: the marks: .WAI™, WA²ISM™ and WAISM™ #653

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Starts using the marks in the standard's own text.

• wai/TRADEMARKS.md (new): .WAI™, WA²ISM™ and WAISM™ are trademarks of Transaction Science, Inc. It says what anyone may do without asking (use the plain name WAI, the .wai extension and every identifier; say a product implements the specification; fork under the licence) and what needs permission (naming a product, a fork or a domain with a mark; implying endorsement).
• Titles: the README's and SPEC's titles carry .WAI™. Bare WAI carries no mark, and identifiers stay ASCII.
• Appendix C points to TRADEMARKS.md, since the licence doesn't cover the marks.
• CHARTER.md: says WAI's specification text is Apache-2.0, which Appendix C and wai/LICENSE already say. It disagreed with them. This changes no licence.

The changelog entry is wai/changes/2026-11-05-marks.md. Checked locally: public names, comparative prose and spec references. No code changes.

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Starts using the marks in the standard's own text. - **`wai/TRADEMARKS.md`** (new): `.WAI™`, `WA²ISM™` and `WAISM™` are trademarks of Transaction Science, Inc. It says what anyone may do without asking (use the plain name WAI, the `.wai` extension and every identifier; say a product implements the specification; fork under the licence) and what needs permission (naming a product, a fork or a domain with a mark; implying endorsement). - **Titles:** the README's and SPEC's titles carry `.WAI™`. Bare WAI carries no mark, and identifiers stay ASCII. - **Appendix C** points to `TRADEMARKS.md`, since the licence doesn't cover the marks. - **`CHARTER.md`:** says WAI's specification text is Apache-2.0, which Appendix C and `wai/LICENSE` already say. It disagreed with them. This changes no licence. The changelog entry is `wai/changes/2026-11-05-marks.md`. Checked locally: public names, comparative prose and spec references. No code changes. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

dcharlot added 1 commit 2026-11-05 11:02:31 -05:00

wai: the marks: .WAI™, WA²ISM™ and WAISM™, what anyone may do without asking, and what needs permission ... bd54502a5e

The README's and the specification's titles carry .WAI™. Bare WAI and every
identifier stay as they are. CHARTER.md now says what Appendix C and
wai/LICENSE already say about WAI's specification text.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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Merge pull request 'wai: the marks: .WAI™, WA²ISM™ and WAISM™' (#653) from wai/marks into main

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