I'd refer you again to the trademark policy. In the first link I see projects whose software ID is like "spark-foo" but title/subtitle is like "Foo for Apache Spark". This is OK. 'sparklyr' is in a gray area we've talked about before; see https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ as well. I think it's in a gray area, myself.
My best advice to anyone is to avoid this entirely by just not naming your project anything like 'spark'. On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:39 AM <0xf0f...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Does it mean that majority of Spark related projects, including top > Datatbricks ( > https://github.com/databricks?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=spark&type=&language=) or > RStudio (sparklyr) contributions, violate the trademark? > > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On August 15, 2018 5:51 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@apache.org> wrote: > > You might be interested in the full policy: > https://spark.apache.org/trademarks.html > > What it is trying to prevent is confusion. Is spark-xml from the Spark > project? Sounds like it but who knows ? What is a vendor releases ASFSpark > 3.0? Are people going to think this is an official real project release? > > You can release 'Foo for Apache Spark'. You can use shorthand like > foo-spark in software identifiers like Maven coordinates. > > Keeping trademark rights is essential in OSS and part of it is making an > effort to assert that right. > > >
