On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > I think there will be an issue with regard to trademarks and you will have to > deal with folks seeing the trademark of "Apache OData" as a land-grab at > "OData" itself. The simplicity you think is avoiding confusion is, in that > respect, causing confusion. > > In any case, it is always wise to avoid confusion of a (standard) > specification, even OASIS Standard OData v3.0 or whatever, with the name of > an implementation. OASIS is going to make their own claims about some of > those terms as well, if the past practice is any guide.
Existing counter examples here at the ASF: c++ standard library, commons, directory, logging, traffic server, uima, web services, xml; with uima being particularly relevant. > - Dennis > > The ODF Toolkit snuck by, much to my dismay, even capturing odf as their > incubator repository name, but they may have to deal with that to graduate to > a TLP. - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
