On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Wendy Smoak <wsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Musachy Barroso <musa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > For what I have read here a few times I think mentioning the company > > from the website is a no-go. I am not sure if it is an Apache wide > > rule(sponsors are listed in some places, but that's a different > > thing), or just a struts specific thing. > > It's not Apache wide; at least one project has a 'thanks' page that > mentions software donations [1]. Struts has historically just avoided > it altogether, even before the ASF started the Sponsorship program. Actually, unless I'm mistaken, it was originally ASF-wide, starting quite a few years ago, and as far as I'm aware, it still is, even if there are one or two non-compliant projects. To answer Paul's question, the major concerns are of a perception that the ASF is endorsing donated products by advertising said products on ASF web sites, and how that relates to the nature of the ASF as a 501(c)3 charitable organisation. If someone wants to pursue this, I would suggest taking it to prc@ and / or legal-disc...@. Personally, I would not want to see Struts go down this road without an explicit green light from those folks. -- Martin Cooper > > [1] http://directory.apache.org/community%26resources/thanks-to.html > > -- > Wendy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org > >
