You are confusing the installation with the department. To be sure
NCSU could use Apache VCL, even install and use it. However, having
the progenitor keep its name, VCL, causes a conflict that needs to be
resolved.
Regards,
Alan
On Feb 19, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Josh Thompson wrote:
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But what does it mean to "stop using theirs"? Does it mean the
letters "VCL"
cannot appear anywhere at their site? (I feel really weird saying
"their"
since I'm employed at NCSU, but I'll try to stick to saying this
with my ASF
hat on).
I feel really strongly that we (ASF) should continue using VCL as
the name for
the project because that's what it has been know as for the last 5
years.
So, I want to work toward figuring out what NCSU must do to allow
that to
happen. If everything at NCSU gets changed to "Apache VCL at NCSU",
would
that work? The goal of moving VCL from NCSU to ASF is to allow more
people
to get involved in development of it, and thus have it used at more
places.
So, it would make sense to me for multiple places to be able to call
their
install of it "Apache VCL at <insert institution name here>".
Josh
On Thursday February 19, 2009, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
As Matt pointed out there needs to be a distinction between this ASF
project and its original progenitor, NCSU VCL. It's quite simple,
either we change our name or they stop using theirs.
Regards,
Alan
On Jan 6, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Josh Thompson wrote:
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Maybe we should look at this from a different angle - is there
anything that
*can* happen for the name to continue as "VCL" at ASF?
Josh
On Tuesday January 06, 2009, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
Thanks for your comments Matt.
Well, it's after the holidays. Time to pick this thread back up.
This issue needs to be resolved before we graduate.
Regards,
Alan
On Dec 19, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
Alan,
Thanks for starting the discussion about this. I think there
are a
few different issues so I'll try to separate them. The issues we
need to address is the trademark of VCL and the other is the
identity of the community. Perhaps we should talk about these in
reverse order.
First is the identity of the community. The move of the
development for the VCL codebase from NC State to Apache marked
the
formation of a community outside of NC State. So, what NC State
decides to do or not to do is not particularly relevant to the
community collaborating at Apache. Given this separation,
perhaps a
different name is appropriate so their is a clear distinction
between NC State's use of VCL and the Apache Incubator's
community.
As far as the name goes. Since Virtualization and hosting is,
well,
virtual, perhaps a name like spectre or Casper would be good :)
(ya, I already can see the naming police coming).
On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Henry E Schaffer wrote:
Alan writes:
...
If VCL is a trademark owned by NCSU then they would have to
assign
the
trademark to the ASF or we would have to change our project's
name.
OK - I think we've reached a very clear question to be
resolved. I
think here's what needs to be resolved (at least in my mind):
If VCL is a trademark owned by NCSU, and If NCSU assigns the
ownership
to the ASF - then would ASF give NCSU permission to continue its
web
site as is (possibly with an acknowledgement to the ASF)?
Alternatively: If VCL is a trademark owned by NCSU, and If NCSU
doesn't assign the ownership to the ASF, but gives permission to
ASF to use
"VCL" as part of naming this ASF project - could, and would the
ASF
use
"AVCL" ("Apache VCL") as the name? (Or some other formulation
which
would be an Apache name but clearly portray to users and
potential
users
that it's the same project.)
Does the above make sense?
--
--henry schaffer
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