mhhh thats somewhat unfortunate? its helpful to me that something is called say spark-xml, it tells me its xml for spark! any other name would probably be less informative.
or is this still allowed? On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > Unfortunately that’s an Apache foundation policy and the Spark community > has no power to change it. My understanding: The reason Spark can’t be in > the name is because if it is used frequently enough, the foundation would > lose the Spark trademark. Cheers. > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 7:19 AM Simon Dirmeier <simon.dirme...@web.de> > wrote: > >> Hey, >> thanks for clearning that up. >> Imho this is somewhat unfortunate, because package names that contain >> "spark", somewhat promote and advertise Apache Spark, right? >> >> Best, >> Simon >> >> Am 15.08.18 um 14:00 schrieb Sean Owen: >> >> 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 >>> >> >>
