This email echoing keeps happening. I thought we've dealt with it, no?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: 田義忠 <name0905189...@icloud.com> Date: Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 1:27 PM Subject: Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF? To: "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org> 從我的 iPhone 傳送 > Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> 於 2015年8月17日 04:25 寫道： > >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: >>> On 8/7/15 7:53 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >>> Bill, >>> So I can release "Niclas Hadoop platform, based on Apache Hadoop" ?? I >>> thought the discussion a few years ago was that this was misleading... >> >> No, you cannot. See our actual trademark policy: >> >> https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/#products >> >> Our release policy, as Roman originally asked about, applies only to ASF >> projects, and has no bearing on third parties. However our trademark >> policy, and trademark law, prevents third parties from publicly >> providing software using our trademarks. >> >> Our operational policies only apply to our projects, just like any other >> corporation. Some policies, like our license itself and our formal >> trademark policy, inform the rest of the world how they are allowed to >> use our websites, software code, and brands. >> >> Make sense? > > It does, but our relationships with downstream Linux vendors > (just to take the most obvious example) set a very confusing > precedent. > > Shane, if would be super helpful if you took a look at: > http://pkgs.org/search/hadoop > http://pkgs.org/search/maven > http://pkgs.org/search/subversion > and pubished your narrative of how the ASF branding > policies apply in both cases. > > The 3 projects I'm picking represent a pretty diverse > set of cases of how PMCs are conducting themselves. > > Thanks, > Roman.
