Bill, So I can release "Niclas Hadoop platform, based on Apache Hadoop" ?? I thought the discussion a few years ago was that this was misleading...
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:30 PM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> > wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > while answering a question on release policies and ALv2 > > I've suddenly realized that I really don't know what is the > > legal basis for enforcing release policies we've got > > documented over here: > > http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html > > > > For example, what would be the legal basis for stopping > > a 3d party from releasing a snapshot of ASF's project > > source tree and claim it to be a release X.Y.Z of said > > project? > > > > Nothing other than the Trademarks. > > If someone wants to call httpd trunk 3.0.1-GA, they cannot do this as > "Apache httpd 3.0.1-GA" or "Apache HTTP Server 3.0.1-GA". > > They can certainly release trunk under the AL license and call it "Kindred > Http Server 3.0.1-GA, based on Apache HTTP Server". That is a statement of > fact and not an abuse of the mark, IMHO. (If it was not actually based on > Apache HTTP Server, then that would similarly be a Trademark infringement > as it is a false use of the mark.) > > There are no less than two marks, one is the name of the foundation itself > in conjunction with Open Source Software, and the other is the specific > project name. > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
