-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To the legal-discuss list:
- From those on the legal-discuss list, there's one thing NCSU would like to get clarification on. If NCSU more clearly donates the name "VCL" to Apache, would NCSU still be allowed to run a service that contains "VCL" in the name of the service? Whether or not the Apache project name changes, the NCSU site (http://vcl.ncsu.edu) will be updated to clearly reflect that the code powering the service is from Apache. As a bit of background, while development of VCL was at NCSU, NCSU had no problems with other universities using the code to run a service named "VCL" at their own site. It was just asked that somewhere on the site, NCSU was credited with the development of VCL. When moving the code to Apache, it was assumed that this same arrangement would be allowed (i.e. Apache credited with the development of VCL). It's okay if that's not the case, but it would be helpful to have some legal reasons explaining why. To the vcl-dev list: If using "VCL" in the name of the service would not be allowed, what do people in the VCL community think of changing the Apache project name to VCloud? That name was previously mentioned by Sam in this message: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vcl-dev/200903.mbox/<001701c99c40$87f1a390$97d4eab0$%40edu> Thanks, Josh On Friday May 01, 2009, [email protected] wrote: > Matt, Alan, Kevan, > > Any additional information on the project name ? > > I found this in the archives: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200904.mbox/%3C4 >[email protected]%3e > > In particular: > > "If you want to continue to use VCL, I'd recommend asking NCSU to make > more obvious their donation to Apache and their intent to donate not > only the code but the name. This would allow us to claim historic use > of the name. If not, find another name." > > How do we donate the name? > > NCSU is taking efforts to make the donation more obvious at the ncsu site. > > Thanks for any advice, > Aaron - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson Systems Programmer Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) North Carolina State University [email protected] 919-515-5323 my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJ/v/cV/LQcNdtPQMRAsbPAJ9Xc/i2X6i+jCqpyXKYJ+6eUyoRqwCeMQEx 9aQL0SZF3AVZO4eTXaD0VXE= =y9vZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
