On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Eli Collins wrote: >> Are we really going to go after all the web companies that patch in an >> enhancement to their current Hadoop build and tell them to stop saying >> that they are using Hadoop? You've patched Hadoop many times, should >> your employer not be able to say they use Hadoop? I'm -1 on a >> proposal that does this. > > I think there is a big difference between some company that uses > Hadoop with some patches internally and a company that puts out a > distribution for others to use, usually for-profit.
The wiki makes no such distinction. The PMC will apply the rules equally to all parties. According to Owen's email if you are using a release of Apache Hadoop and have applied more than 2 security patches or any backports you are not using Hadoop. Thanks, Eli
