I tried twice writing them but I didn't receive an answer. But given that Apache Calcite is also using airlift/tpch in its dependencies as well, I would like to add the TPC-H data generator to "flink-contrib". I would also add a note that TPC is a registered trademark and that our generator is not the official generator and may not be used to generate test data for performance measurement publications.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > I wrote them some time ago (like 12+ months) about the question whether we > can include TPCH sample data for our programs. They replied they were just > revising their license to allow that. > > Should be possible now. Good idea to ping them again to make sure that it > is approved now and that it holds for code as well... > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Okay, thank you. I'll write a mail to tpc.org and ask which rules we > have > > to respect. > > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > +1 for reaching out to the TPC. > > > > > > It might also be that it is OK to add the code but not under the name > > > TPC-H. > > > > > > 2015-02-11 13:55 GMT+01:00 Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org>: > > > > > > > Nice, this is a great tool. :) > > > > > > > > On 09 Feb 2015, at 17:05, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > However, the website is not really helpful: > > > > http://www.tpc.org/trademarks/ > > > > > > > > > > As one data point, the Apache Calcite (incubating) project also > > depends > > > > on > > > > > the mentioned airlift/tpch repository: > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-calcite/blob/master/plus/pom.xml#L57 > > > > > and > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-calcite/blob/master/plus/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/adapter/tpch/TpchSchema.java#L33 > > > > > . > > > > > > > > > > How about adding a line to the NOTICE files acknowledging that TPC > > is a > > > > > registered trademark of the transaction processing council? > > > > > > > > I find it reasonable to add it to the NOTICE files as an > > acknowledgement. > > > > > > > > The trademark website says "For additional details please contact > > > > ad...@tpc.org." If we want to be on the safe side, we could write an > > > > email and confirm. > > > > > > > > Any further opinions on this? > > > > > > > > – Ufuk > > > > > >
