Thanks. We've got this in hand. On Nov 21, 2016 7:14 PM, "Javen O'Neal" <one...@apache.org> wrote:
> Looks like there is at least one other non-Apache package using the > org.apache.poi namespace. [1] > > I would approach this from a friendly direction first. > > I'm assuming they needed an o.a.p namespace so they would have access to > protected and package-private methods and variables. The alternative is to > fork POI and elevate the visibility of the classes, functions, and > variables that they need to access. The disadvantage of a forked project is > high overhead to keep it synchronized with the upstream project. This would > be messy if another > > I like the idea of reaching out to these developers to see if they're > willing to donate some of their code under ASL 2.0. I'm guessing most of > this would be elevating visibility of private, package-private, and > protected methods, as well as adding some getters and setters. Other > changes would be adding a converters interface that they could implent or > extend. > > Obviously we aren't interested in code that cannot be ASL 2.0 licensed, > such as the iTextPdf dependency. > > The goal would be to allow these projects to use their own namespace > without needing to maintain a fork of POI. > > [1] http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Corg.apache.poi > > On Nov 21, 2016 14:57, "Nick Burch" <apa...@gagravarr.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, Murphy, Mark wrote: >> >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40723370/was-opensagres-a >>> llowed-to-use-apache-poi-like-packages >>> >>> Does ASF defend its package names, or do we just ignore these kinds of >>> things and folks use them at their own peril? >>> >> >> I had a quick look at http://apache.org/foundation/marks/ but couldn't >> see anything there about java or maven package names. I have a feeling >> there is something somewhere that I saw a few years ago... >> >> If you have a bit of time, would you mind asking on trademarks@ [1] for >> advice / pointers? >> >> Nick >> >> [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/contact >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org >> >>
