On 29 December 2011 20:29, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> wrote: >>> If you are saying this is compatible with ALv2 ? Then why use Apache >>> Extras instead of just the oodt SVN official repo in Apache ? >> >> But that's exactly the point! It is NOT ALv2 because it seems that Chris' >> project compiles against GPL sources and thus also must be GPL licensed. >> >> Would it be possible to have it under the package org.apacheextras ? >> If we don't even allow that, then we can just close down apacheextras.org - >> because then there is no use for it imo. > > +1 > > Leads me to the question... if I fork an asf project on github and do > some work on it, am I required to change the org.apache namespace? > If no, third parties can release code with the apache namespace (and > they actually do) and then I ask myself why Chris should not be able > to use the namespace.
That's a trademarks@ issue. Ross
