For many months the board has been asking the Maven project to obtain proper attribution from Sonatype for Apache's "Maven" trademark. Sonatype has thus far failed to comply. The Sonatype website states only that "Apache Maven" is a trademark of the ASF, not that "Maven" alone is also a trademark of the ASF. Since Sonatype seems to dispute that this trademark belongs to Apache, Sonatype employees are unable to simultaneously legally act for Sonatype and Apache at the same time. So the ASF has removed Sonatype employees from the Maven PMC in order to remove them from conflict.
Doug On 06/16/2011 05:11 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > Jeff, > > I believe this strictly falls within the purview of the Apache Board to > explain. In particular Jim, Doug and Shane. > > Only the board has the right to reveal the business that has been > transacted on private lists. > > Rest assured that's Sonatype's commitment to Maven users and our pursuit > of innovation with respect to Maven-related technologies has not > stopped, and will not stop. > > On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Jeff Jensen wrote: > >> Is there a forthcoming explanation for a seemingly Maven PMC shakeup? >> I find it odd that consistently excellent contributors such as Lukas, >> Brian, et al are suddenly not on the Maven PMC. This is concerning as >> these are people who have drastically improved and moved Maven >> forward. It's very concerning that a heavy committer such as Benjamin >> is no longer committing as he has done very useful, fantastic work. >> These events are very concerning for the forward progress of Maven. >> The strong temptations for competitive products, a la Gradle, do not >> allow Maven progress to stop; particularly the best progress to date >> of the past year. These events are detrimental. For us uninformed, >> what happened, why is it good, what is the plan forward behind this? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> <mailto:dev-h...@maven.apache.org> >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > --------------------------------------------------------- > > We all have problems. How we deal with them is a measure of our worth. > > -- Unknown > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
