Hi Lars, > On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:17 PM, Lars Francke <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >>> I believe it'd be good to talk with Legal and/or Trademark early on to >> get >>> an opinion on a few things and then later put a prominent note on that on >>> our website. >> >> It reasonably straight forward I think, as long as 3rd parties respect the >> Apache license, brand and it’s trademarks all is good. For instance [2] >> >> There may need to be a discussion around how do we license non code stuff >> as the ALv2 was only written with software in mind. We also need to take >> care including stuff that under other licenses, for instance a lot of >> content is under creative common licenses and that may or may not be >> compatible with the apache license. [1] >> > > Good points. And I agree, the current rules probably cover most of it but I > believe it doesn't hurt to be proactive here and just talk about the issues > we foresee. And you raised one of them. > > >> >>> How exactly can we do that and especially how can we market it and refer >> to it? >> >> As long as there’s no confusion with users that the compony is >> representing the ASF or the ASF project in question, again all is good. [3] >> >>> Someone else talked about "certifications" in the VOTE thread. I put them >>> as "out of scope" in the Proposal but that doesn't mean it can't change. >> >> This has come up a couple of of time at the board level and from memory >> it's been something the ASF don’t want to do, that doesn’t mean we can’t >> bring it up again. >> > > I assumed as much, hence I left it out in the proposal but since it was > raised during VOTE I assume it'll come up again. So I'd raise this as well.
My understanding is the same as Justin's. The board is definitely not interested in helping companies create "certified" stamps of approval for training/courses. That said, I do not see anything wrong with the training project creating as part of its offerings things to evaluate attendees' understanding of the materials. In other words, tests. I don't recall tests being discussed here. Craig > > I see all of his as content for a FAQ page on our website. > > Cheers, > Lars > > >> Thanks, >> Justin >> >> 1. https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#cc-sa >> <https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#cc-sa> >> 2. https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/#books >> <https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/#books> >> 3. https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/#notes >> <https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/#notes> Craig L Russell Secretary, Apache Software Foundation [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://db.apache.org/jdo <http://db.apache.org/jdo>
