You raise a great point, and we were just discussing this. The page is old and contains many projects that were listed before the trademarks we're being enforced. Some have renamed themselves. We will update the page and remove stale or noncompliant projects and ask those that need to change to do so.
You are correct that the guidance you quote is current and should be followed. Note there is an exception for software identifiers. On Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 6:13 AM Simon Dirmeier <simon.dirme...@web.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am currently developing two OSS extension packages for spark; one > related to machine learning; one related to biological applications. > According to the trademark guidelines ( > https://spark.apache.org/trademarks.html) I am not allowed to use > *Names derived from “Spark”, such as “sparkly”. * > My question is if that is really the case or how stringent these > guidelines are, given that so many spark packages ( > https://spark.apache.org/third-party-projects.html) contain Spark as name > already. I already contacted the official email for questions like these, > but didn't hear back until now. > > Can anyone please shed light on this? > Thanks in advance! > > Best, > Simon >
