I would proceed with the plan that the project will succeed in graduating.
Usually project names stay with the ASF. I am not sure what the policy would be for a project that failed to graduate. I would suspect the project could keep it after leaving. However, if the project fails to graduate the likelihood of it succeeding anywhere would be minimal. Ralph > On Jun 2, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@freemail.hu> wrote: > > That's certainly won't be a problem in reality, as Jacopo said. > > What I'm curious about is if what happens if Freemarker gets into the > Incubator but then sadly later fails to graduate, so then it has to > continue outside ASF, probably with the earlier owners. I guess then > we will have to fork the work done during incubation (or can that be > given back with some kind of SLG?), which is messy (complicates the > license permanently, right?), but doable. But we will need to get the > product name back too! Is that "promised" formally somewhere, or how > does that go? Well, let's hope no such thing will happen, but still, I > should know this. > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany > > > Thursday, May 28, 2015, 11:39:17 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Jacopo Cappellato <jacopo.cappell...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> ...Should we move to the next step (that I think is starting a vote)?... >> >> >> I think so, with two comments: >> >> Having just two committers is very small but that can hopefully be solved >> during incubation. >> >> The proposal does not mention how the Freemarker name/trademark donation >> will be handled, if the copyright owners also own the name that won't be a >> problem. And anyway that can be solved during incubation, but if you can >> make sure before entering incubation that the name can be donated that's >> easier. >> >> -Bertrand >> >>> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
