craps? :( On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:47 AM Koert Kuipers <ko...@tresata.com> wrote:
> ok it doesnt sound so bad if the maven identifier can have spark it in. no > big deal! > > otherwise i was going to suggest "kraps". like kraps-xml > > scala> "spark".reverse > res0: String = kraps > > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@apache.org> wrote: > >> I'd refer you again to the trademark policy. In the first link I see >> projects whose software ID is like "spark-foo" but title/subtitle is like >> "Foo for Apache Spark". This is OK. 'sparklyr' is in a gray area we've >> talked about before; see https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ as >> well. I think it's in a gray area, myself. >> >> My best advice to anyone is to avoid this entirely by just not naming >> your project anything like 'spark'. >> >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:39 AM <0xf0f...@protonmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Does it mean that majority of Spark related projects, including top >>> Datatbricks ( >>> https://github.com/databricks?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=spark&type=&language=) >>> or RStudio (sparklyr) contributions, violate the trademark? >>> >>> >>> Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. >>> >>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >>> On August 15, 2018 5:51 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> You might be interested in the full policy: >>> https://spark.apache.org/trademarks.html >>> >>> What it is trying to prevent is confusion. Is spark-xml from the Spark >>> project? Sounds like it but who knows ? What is a vendor releases ASFSpark >>> 3.0? Are people going to think this is an official real project release? >>> >>> You can release 'Foo for Apache Spark'. You can use shorthand like >>> foo-spark in software identifiers like Maven coordinates. >>> >>> Keeping trademark rights is essential in OSS and part of it is making an >>> effort to assert that right. >>> >>> >>> >
