On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Nagendra Nagarajayya < nnagaraja...@transaxtions.com> wrote:
> Mark, > > Grant Ingersoll from ASF got in touch with me to ensure that I am > compliant with the Apache Trade Mark. I made changes to the names, web > pages, wiki, papers, etc. and sent back the links to Grant for approval. > You may want to check with Grant. > Great, I'm glad to hear it. I didn't understand your original response with regards to when you had spoken to someone and if a change was coming or you thought you were already in compliance. > > Regarding the fork, I am not creating a fork but actually contributing the > realtime NRT back to Apache Solr. There was no NRT functionality in the > older versions of Solr. You have a fork now though - and forks are fine. Anyone should feel comfortable forking Apache licensed code. I just want to make sure there is no confusion about it - that is why we have the naming rules. If you end up contributing code back, that is great, but it's a separate thing. > > > Regards, > > Nagendra Nagarajayya > http://solr-ra.tgels.org > http://rankingalgorithm.tgels.**org <http://rankingalgorithm.tgels.org> > > > > On 7/25/2012 6:54 AM, Mark Miller wrote: > >> You are changing the name, or someone at Apache told you the current name >> is okay? >> >> If someone at Apache told you it was okay, who was that? >> >> You are certainly not using the Solr mark in an approved manner and I'd >> hope if you are going to take advantage of our mailing list for promotion >> of your product, that you would not violate our trademark. You are already >> on shaky ground promoting a Solr fork on the Solr mailing list by >> announcing every release - naming your fork something with Solr in it puts >> you over the edge on my list. >> >> We don't allow people to name their products things like "Solr: the >> wonder edition" or anything along those lines. Solr is our trademark and >> third party products must have their own name. The only thing we allow is >> the phrase "powered by Solr". >> >> I'm on the Lucene/Solr PMC and am an Apache member and I'd find it pretty >> hard to believe that anyone would suggest that your usage is a correct >> usage of the Solr trademark. >> >> - Mark >> >> On Jul 24, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Nagendra Nagarajayya wrote: >> >> Thanks Mark! I am already working with Apache Software Foundation on the >>> mark and am using the correct usage of the mark as suggested by them. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Nagendra Nagarajayya >>> http://solr-ra.tgels.org >>> http://rankingalgorithm.tgels.**org <http://rankingalgorithm.tgels.org> >>> >>> >>> On 7/23/2012 12:15 PM, Mark Miller wrote: >>> >>>> On Jul 23, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Nagendra Nagarajayya wrote: >>>> >>>> I am not sure why any one will get offended by an announcement that >>>>> NRT functionality was available with older releases. >>>>> >>>> FWIW, I'm not offended - I don't mind if third parties post >>>> announcements if they are related to Solr. >>>> >>>> I just want to make sure it's very clear that it's a third party >>>> announce so there is no confusion - people that don't follow the lists on a >>>> daily basis read these things. A lot of these emails end up archived on >>>> various sites that collect mailing lists. It's easy to run into them >>>> without the proper context. >>>> >>>> I think part of the confusion is the naming. Technically, Apache does >>>> not allow the use of Apache marks as part of a third party name. Instead, >>>> the name should be something like "Product X, powered by Solr" >>>> >>>> See >>>> http://www.apache.org/**foundation/marks/faq/#products<http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/#products> >>>> >>>> - Mark Miller >>>> lucidimagination.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> - Mark Miller >> lucidimagination.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- - Mark http://www.lucidimagination.com
