On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 23:40 Jaroslav Tulach <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply, David. > > > > > > I am not aware of any Apache project uploading something to the > > > > Marketplace. I am not sure if Apache has credentials to do it. If so, > > > > great, let's use them. > > > > > > I don't recall off hand that the ASF has a Microsoft Marketplace account. > > > However, we do maintain accounts at Apple and Google for similar > > > purposes, and it's somewhat reasonable to assume that we could do > > > similar in this case. > > > > That would be ideal. How shall we proceed investigating this direction? > Submit > > an issue to infra? Legal? An infra ticket referencing this issue. > > > > > > ....(publishing by an independent group).... > > > > touches Apache copyright... > > > > > > I'd be more worried about the trademark implications than copyright. > > > > Right, trademark is it. > > > > Laszlo seems to prefer an ... > > > > > independent publisher group who can be eventually be member of the > > > Apache NetBeans community and also use the "built on Apache NetBeans" > > > rather than "built by Apache NetBeans". Though the later one sounds > > > better, but has many restrictions. > > > > ...I guess we all would be fine with both solutions. Either upload managed > by > > Apache (like in case of Apple Store and Google Play) or upload by an > > independent group. It's just a question what we can handle in three weeks > > timeframe more easily? > > > > -jt > > > > > > > >
