Hi Dennis, Sorry for coming back so late to your valuable feedback. After re-thinking about the trademark issue and your thoughts about confusion we come to conclusion to use a different name for the project. I would like to change our project name to
Apache Olingo Olingo is a little bear [1] and that name should avoid any confusion with the OASIS standard or any other potential trademark holder. If there are no concerns then I will go and change our proposal to Apache Olingo. WDYT? Regards, stephan [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olingo On 18.06.13 15:58, "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. > > - 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. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Klevenz, Stephan [mailto:stephan.klev...@sap.com] >Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 06:27 AM >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Cc: dennis.hamil...@acm.org >Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] OData Proposal for Incubator > >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. >[ ... ] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
