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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-13607: --------------------------------------- [~alangates]' change comment on the Tutorial wikidoc: bq. The use of "Hive's SQL" rather than "Hive SQL" was intentional. It is the SQL provided by Hive, not a separate thing, "Hive SQL" Thanks for the explanation, Alan. [~sladymon] and I discussed that and I persuaded her against "Hive's" for a legal reason: to avoid genericization, a trademark should not be used as a possessive. (I learned this while editing IBM docs -- their lawyers are quite finicky.) We might need to check with tradema...@apache.org, since you have a good argument for "Hive's SQL." See Wikipedia's "Generic trademark" page: bq. One risk factor that may lead to genericization is the use of a trademark as a verb, plural or possessive, unless the mark itself is possessive or plural. * [Wikipedia -- Generic trademark -- Legal concepts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark#Legal_concepts] * [International Trademark Association -- Trademark Use | http://www.inta.org/TrademarkBasics/FactSheets/Pages/TrademarkUseFactSheet.aspx] > Change website references to HQL/HiveQL to SQL > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-13607 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13607 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Website > Reporter: Alan Gates > Assignee: Alan Gates > Attachments: HIVE-13607.2.patch, HIVE-13607.patch > > > When it started Hive's SQL dialect was far enough from standard SQL that the > developers called it HQL or HiveQL. > Over the years Hive's SQL dialect has matured. It still has some oddities > but it is explicitly pushing towards SQL 2011 conformance. Calling the > language anything but SQL now is confusing for users. > In addition to changing the website I propose to make changes in the wiki. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)