On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > On 8/7/15 7:53 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> Bill, >> So I can release "Niclas Hadoop platform, based on Apache Hadoop" ?? I >> thought the discussion a few years ago was that this was misleading... > > No, you cannot. See our actual trademark policy: > > https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/#products > > Our release policy, as Roman originally asked about, applies only to ASF > projects, and has no bearing on third parties. However our trademark > policy, and trademark law, prevents third parties from publicly > providing software using our trademarks. > > Our operational policies only apply to our projects, just like any other > corporation. Some policies, like our license itself and our formal > trademark policy, inform the rest of the world how they are allowed to > use our websites, software code, and brands. > > Make sense?
It does, but our relationships with downstream Linux vendors (just to take the most obvious example) set a very confusing precedent. Shane, if would be super helpful if you took a look at: http://pkgs.org/search/hadoop http://pkgs.org/search/maven http://pkgs.org/search/subversion and pubished your narrative of how the ASF branding policies apply in both cases. The 3 projects I'm picking represent a pretty diverse set of cases of how PMCs are conducting themselves. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
