On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Eli Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > But Yahoo! hasn't. According to this wiki YDH (0.20.100) would *not* > be considered Apache Hadoop. For example see HADOOP-6962 which refers > to 0.20.9, an internal Yahoo! release, not an official Apache release. > Are you really comfortable saying Yahoo! doesn't run Hadoop?
This conclusion does not follow. The guidelines prohibit companies from distributing that software as "Hadoop". It takes no position on whether a company that modifies a release of Apache Hadoop for its deployment credits the project. On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > In addition, I think that the limitations on usage are too strict. For > instance, if "QuickBooks for Windows" [1] doesn't cause Microsoft to sue > Intuit, then "Joe's Foo for Apache Hadoop" really shouldn't cause any more > grief. This analogy is also inexact. QuickBooks is an application running on Windows, not a replacement for it. -C
