Hi Dave,
thanks for your feedback!
On 8 Mar 2009, at 20:23, Dave butlerdi wrote:
Was quite suprised to see CouchDB Ltd on the slides from the Hadoop
meeting
in Berlin. Was unable to get up there but really think that this is
a bad
move.
You are an Apache project and this just seems counter productive.
In which way exactly? Getting people paid to advance CouchDB?
I also
think that several other projects have become entailed of this type
of
behaviour and had problems with Apache in the end.
We'd love to hear about past experiences so we can try and avoid
the same mistakes.
I do not commit, not am I interested in commercialising my
experience with
the product, but use Couch. However, to use the project name for
commercail
gain by a few does seem wrong.
Like Chris pointed out already, we'll be addressing this issue.
Cheers
Jan
--
Why not follow the Ruby/Rails example and set
up a community effort for the provision of services under the
CouchDB name.
Just my .02.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Matthieu Riou
<[email protected]>wrote:
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Damien Katz <[email protected]>
wrote:
Standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
The name of the official project is Apache CouchDB. I see CouchDB as
being
like Linux, where (as far as I know anyone) is free to use the
name. So,
IMO
it is completely fair to name a company CouchDB Ltd. But it also
means
anyone else can name their company CouchDB LLC or The Real CouchDB
Ltd.
This
is a bigger problem. You don't have a defensible trademark.
FWIW, the foundation has defended its project names as trademarks
in the
past, gently notifying companies that it'd be nicer if they didn't
use that
name (thinking of Tomcat and Wicket here for example). I don't know
how
that
would stand in court but it's never been necessary to go to a court
so far,
so I guess the point is moot.
Matthieu
-Damien
On Mar 8, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Chris Anderson wrote:
Devs,
I've felt the fair-competition argument a little on my own, so
hearing
it from other quarters gives it even greater weight. We're
discussing
ways to proceed that take into account the full community,
including
competitors (of which we hope to have many!)
Thanks for the perspective, everyone. We'll have more to announce
in
the next few days.
Cheers,
Chris
--
Chris Anderson
http://jchris.mfdz.com
--
Regards
Dave Butler
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