-1 The incubator status file does not reflect any progress towards
clearing the IP (you MUST update that file).Furthermore, the release artifacts use names that are trademarked and in use by other projects. Some questions need to be answered, while others require a rename:
1) Has Matt Walsh approved transfer of the SEDA name? Is that library
a direct descendant of <http://sourceforge.net/projects/seda/>, in
which case the version numbering should be 4.0, or does it merely use
his architecture (in which case it is wrong to use the name)?
2) Eve is a trademark of CCP Ltd. for use in on-line software. We cannot
legally distribute software under that name.
3) Janus is a trademark of Janus International Holding Co, which has
actively defended it in other contexts:
<http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0201.html>.
Janus is also the name of several software projects and at least one
software company. I do not consider it sufficiently free of risk to
be used as the name of an Apache product.
4) Snickers is a trademark of MARS, Inc. It is actively defended and
used on-line, and thus unlikely to be usable by the ASF for more than
a few months before they send us a Cease & Desist.
5) Kerberos is a trademark of MIT. We cannot legally distribute software
under that name.
It is the responsibility of all Apache projects to search for and verify compliance with trademark law prior to release of products that might be considered an infringement.
....Roy
On Dec 27, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Alex Karasulu wrote:
Hello,
We at the Directory Project (under incubation here, http://incubator.apache.org/directory) have been preparing to release from the incubator. The major subprojects that shall release artifacts if this vote passes are listed below with a release version, a short description, and a link if more information is needed to partake in this vote:
eve (0.8) - a pure Java LDAP directory server and LDAP JNDI provider - http://incubator.apache.org/directory/subprojects/eve/index.html
ldap (0.8)
- common LDAP libraries
- http://incubator.apache.org/directory/subprojects/directory-ldap/ index.html
naming (0.8)
- a lightweight, in-memory JNDI service provider
- http://incubator.apache.org/directory/subprojects/directory-naming/ index.html
janus (0.2) - an Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) framework - http://incubator.apache.org/directory/subprojects/janus/index.html
snickers (0.2)
- high performance non-blocking replacement for the Snacc4J runtime (ASN.1 runtime)
- http://incubator.apache.org/directory/subprojects/snickers/index.html
kerberos (0.4)
- a pure Java kerberos server implementation
- http://incubator.apache.org/directory/subprojects/kerberos/index.html
seda (0.2) - a networking framework used by Kerberos and LDAP servers - http://incubator.apache.org/directory/subprojects/seda/index.html
We have prepared all jar artifacts so they contain 100% ASF owned code, the incubator disclaimer, the ASL 2.0 and the standard NOTICE.txt in accordance with incubation policies regarding releases. All release artifacts also are maven generated artifacts whose group IDs are set to incubator-directory to clearly show the code's incubation status.
On behalf of the Directory Project Team, I would like to initiate a vote to release these versions of the artifacts in projects under the the Directory umbrella:
[ ] +1 Approve the request to release [ ] -1 Reject the request to release [ ] +0 Abstain
Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year! The Directory Project Team
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