On Dec 30, 2011, at 3:11 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 29 December 2011 20:29, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> wrote: >>>> If you are saying this is compatible with ALv2 ? Then why use Apache >>>> Extras instead of just the oodt SVN official repo in Apache ? >>> >>> But that's exactly the point! It is NOT ALv2 because it seems that Chris' >>> project compiles against GPL sources and thus also must be GPL licensed. >>> >>> Would it be possible to have it under the package org.apacheextras ? >>> If we don't even allow that, then we can just close down apacheextras.org - >>> because then there is no use for it imo. >> >> +1 >> >> Leads me to the question... if I fork an asf project on github and do >> some work on it, am I required to change the org.apache namespace? >> If no, third parties can release code with the apache namespace (and >> they actually do) and then I ask myself why Chris should not be able >> to use the namespace. > > That's a trademarks@ issue.
(CC to trademarks@) Yeah I agree with Ross on this. Just took me a while to realize it :) Not a ComDev issue at all. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
