The WordPress Foundation, who owns the WordPress trademark, has the following usage policy (emphasis mine):

Permission from the WordPress Foundation is required to use the WordPress name or logo as part of any project, product, service, domain or company name.

We will grant permission to use the WordPress name and logo for projects that meet the following criteria:

  • The primary purpose of your project is to promote the spread and improvement of the WordPress software.
  • Your project is non-commercial in nature (it can make money to cover its costs or contribute to non-profit entities, but it cannot be run as a for-profit project or business).
  • Your project neither promotes nor is associated with entities that currently fail to comply with the GPL license under which WordPress is distributed.

If your project meets these criteria, you will be permitted to use the WordPress name and logo to promote your project in any way you see fit with one exception: Please do not use WordPress as part of a domain name. Examples of projects in this category are officially recognized WordCamps or international WordPress communities that are dedicated to the translation and distribution of WordPress in their respective countries.

All other WordPress-related businesses or projects can use the WordPress name and logo to refer to and explain their services, but they cannot use them as part of a product, project, service, domain, or company name and they cannot use them in any way that suggests an affiliation with or endorsement by the WordPress Foundation or the WordPress open source project. For example, a consulting company can describe its business as “123 Web Services, offering WordPress consulting for small businesses,” but cannot call its business “The WordPress Consulting Company.” Similarly, a business related to WordPress themes can describe itself as “XYZ Themes, the world’s best WordPress themes,” but cannot call itself “The WordPress Theme Portal.”

This project doesn't promote or integrate with WordPress: it duplicates WordPress-like features into Drupal, essentially creating a form of competition. Per the trademark policy, it can't be called Wordpress Blog.

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manarth’s picture

Thanks for pointing this out - I wasn't aware of this when I created the module.

I've renamed the module's full name to "WP Blog - a WordPress-style blogging module".

I've raised a ticket- #1060560: Help renaming a module - in the webmaster's queue for support in changing the CVS entry and module short name to 'wp_blog'.

manarth’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed

As the tools don't make it practical to rename the project, I've removed the files from CVS HEAD and changed the title and description of this project to show that it's been renamed.

The module has been moved to http://drupal.org/project/wp_blog.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.