Good point: The ASF (actually the single PMCs of the ASF) do handle trademark rules pretty strictly:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ The main reason is that we a.) need to defend the marks, otherwise they vanish and could be (ab-)used by anyone b.) as a non-for-profit organisation we must act for the public good, and must not allow a single company to have any advantage over others. If we don't act accordingly we might loose our 501(c) status. The same is btw true for other non-for-profit OSS foundations, even if they don't realise it (and then get beaten up by IRS). LieGrue, strub > On Wednesday, 14 September 2016, 20:40, Roman Shaposhnik > <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Wade Chandler > <cons...@wadechandler.com> wrote: >> Do you mean from the stand point of it being a Java based application, or > that some how >> NetBeans and the Java TCK are related? I don’t think either is an impact on > NetBeans IMHO; >> not any more than it is for the Eclipse IDE or IntelliJ. Do you mean > because it is being contributed >> by Oracle perhaps? If so, does the donor have as much impact on > contributions as that once >> adopted by Apache? I may be misunderstanding what you are asking. I am not > an employee >> of Oracle; just an NB contributor. > > I think the question is more along the lines of what else would be > required to produce a "canonical" > release of Apache Netbeans. If everything that is required is being > donated -- I think we're good. > IOW, the project must be self-contained and not depend on anything > still left behind the firewall > to do on-going development and most important releases. E.g. if I send > you a patch -- you can't > reject it on the grounds that some test behind Oracle's frewall I've > never seen failed. Stuff like > that. > > On a related note, I haven't seen it explicitly mentioned in the > proposal, but I hope you guys do > realize that once this project is accepted the Netbeans brand belongs > to Apache. IOW, if Oracle > or anybody else ever want to have an independent product based on > Apache Netbeans they will > have to call it something else. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
