On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 22:45, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: >> On Nov 23, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 20:47, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> >>> wrote: >>>> ... >>>> OK - Have they explicitly OK'd Apache Wave? While Apache Wave would >>>> certainly be unique to Apache, if Google intends to keep using Google Wave >>>> (and Wave as a shorthand) this would get very confusing. >>> >>> Don't you think that by proposing Wave to the Incubator that Google >>> has OK'd this? >> >> I don't work for Google and don't know the people proposing this so no, I >> have no idea whether Google has OK'd this. > > Simple review: the original email was sent by Dan Peterson from his > google.com address. I imagine that if Google had a problem with it, > then he wouldn't be working there tomorrow :-D ... or if this was some > kind of spurious one-guy-goes-batshit-crazy, then how could he line up > so many people? > > And sure, while you couldn't know this, Dan is a great guy. I worked > with him while at Google. This proposal is straight-up. > > My simple point is: please accept proposals at face value rather than > pushing back with paranoid thoughts about malfeasance on the part of > the people wanting to join our efforts here at the ASF. >
Ralph's question seemed reasonable to me, the ASF trademarks people are a often mentioning problems with using trademarked names like this. However its something that can be sorted out with those ASF trademarks folks during incubation, its not a barrier for entry to incubation. Anyway, seems like a fine proposal to me, +1 for it coming to Apache. ...ant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
