ok it doesnt sound so bad if the maven identifier can have spark it in. no big deal!
otherwise i was going to suggest "kraps". like kraps-xml scala> "spark".reverse res0: String = kraps On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@apache.org> wrote: > 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. >> >> >>
