Fwd: [VOTE] Shall we adopt the "Defining Hadoop" page

2011-06-20 Thread Jeff Hammerbacher
Hey, I'm inclined towards freedom with respect to the use of the trademark. I personally was drawn towards the Apache 2.0 license because of its more liberal stance on source code modifications; I worked hard to submit many of our internal projects at Facebook to the ASF against significant intern

Re: Fwd: [VOTE] Shall we adopt the "Defining Hadoop" page

2011-06-20 Thread Andrew Purtell
Hi Jeff, First, apologies for removing most of your argument for clarity. Readers can find it in the general@ archives I am sure. > Lastly, I'd love to learn more about how other prominent open source > projects have approached this issue. If you have any knowledge about > how Linux handled the

Re: Fwd: [VOTE] Shall we adopt the "Defining Hadoop" page

2011-06-20 Thread Ted Dunning
Great summary Andrew. I would add one more precipitating factor here. That is the arrival of a number of products which are very close to the Apache version of Hadoop but for which there is no good and widely accepted terminology that gives proper credit to their lineage while making clear the di