In my opinion, the first amendment is relatively relevant to the mailing list. A polite, infrequent, announcement of a commercial offering of potential interest to the users is just find by me, personally, and I know of no ASF policy to the contrary. It is of course going to be a matter of gray to decide if someone pushes the limits of 'polite' and 'infrequent'.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Christian Schneider <ch...@die-schneider.net> wrote: > Sounds good for me. > > What I would have imagined for a complete policy is how to handle other > pages and e.g. the mailing list. I think we could add to the policies that > promotion of products on other > wiki pages ist not allowed. Perhaps on the articles page links to articles > about cxf + products are also ok. > > What do we expect on the mailing list? Are product announcements ok or > forbidden? > > Christian > > > Am 03.02.2011 18:45, schrieb Daniel Kulp: >> >> On Thursday 03 February 2011 10:53:30 am Christian Schneider wrote: >>> >>> +1 for working out a policy for commercial marketing in CXF resources >>> (wiki, mailing list, subversion, ..). >> >> I've updated the page: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CXF/Commercial+CXF+Offerings >> >> (will sync live in a bit) >> >> To remove the offending statements as well as added a section to try and >> clarify the policy for the page. Updates and such are more than >> welcome. >> :-) >> >> >> Dan >> >> >>> My proposal is that we create a policy in a wiki page, let it mature a >>> bit and then call a vote on it. >>> So we have some guideline for people who create marketing statements in >>> the wiki or elsewhere in the project and also for people >>> who remove or edit these statements. Without a policy that is backed by >>> a vote everyone can claim he is right and the others are wrong. >>> Of course we should also refer to any rules that the Apache organization >>> has for such statements that apply to all projects. >>> >>> Christian >>> >>> Am 03.02.2011 16:14, schrieb Eric Johnson: >>>> >>>> Since there are now at least three decent size companies offering >>>> commercial products based on CXF we should work out a policy about >>>> where companies can put links back to their sites and list their >>>> offerings. It would make it easier for companies to know what the line >>>> is so they can avoid crossing it. > > -- > ---- > http://www.liquid-reality.de > >
