Who owns the rights to the OData trademark? I am not sure that you or the ASF has standing to use OData as a project name. That said we have podling namesearch for a reason, to make sure that these types of issues can be addressed by people qualified to make such judgements (e.g. not me)
--David On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Klevenz, Stephan <stephan.klev...@sap.com> wrote: > Hello Dennis, > > Good point! The project naming was a challenge for us and maybe I just can > explain why we prefer Apache OData as project name. The main reason is > search. > > Someone who is interested in OData will use this term and the result page > will today list odata.org as the protocols homepage, Wikipedia which is > fine and the OASIS TC. In future we would like to see that Apache OData is > highly ranked and completes the search result list. > > If we use a different name someone has to know this name and has to search > for it explicitly. We would like to keep it simple and avoid confusion. > > We had also a look into the ASF project naming guidelines and I think most > of the points there are considered by the name Apache OData. > > > Regards, > Stephan > > On 18.06.13 03:28, "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > >>I think one concern here is appropriation of a generic, specified-tied >>name to an implementation, even a reference implementation. >> >>"Apache OData" seems over-reaching in that respect, especially since >>there are other projects, at ASF and elsewhere, that may employ OData >>bindings and services of one sort or another. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Klevenz, Stephan [mailto:stephan.klev...@sap.com] >>Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 08:36 AM >>To: general@incubator.apache.org >>Subject: [PROPOSAL] OData Proposal for Incubator >> >>Dear ASF members, >> >>We would like to propose the OData project to the Incubator. >> >>The OData Proposal is available at: >>https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ODataProposal >> >>We welcome your feedback and suggestions. >> >>Thanks! >> >>Stephan Klevenz >> >> >>[ ... ] >> >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
