On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 13, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Doug Cutting wrote: > >> On 05/13/2011 07:28 PM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: >>> If it has a modified version of Hadoop (i.e., not an actual Apache >>> release or patches which have never been committed to trunk), are >>> they allowed to say "includes Apache Hadoop"? >> >> No. Those are the two cases we permit. We used to say that it was >> enough for a patch to be in Jira, but Roy clarified last year that >> committed to trunk is a better line, since that means the code has been >> reviewed and accepted by the community. > > > So what do we do about companies that release a product that says > "includes Apache Hadoop" but includes patches that aren't committed to trunk? >
It's not just companies by the way, we the Hadoop project just made an official Apache release that contains patches not yet in trunk...
