On Jun 24, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Doug Cutting wrote: > On 06/24/2011 07:07 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote: >> On Jun 24, 2011, at 6:43 AM, Doug Cutting wrote: >> >>> Might it be better to improve the existing Apache trademark policy >>> page? >> >> When the project is having trouble agreeing, reaching agreement at >> the foundation level seems unrealistic. > > ASF trademark policy is set by Shane, VP Trademark, not by a committee.
If we apply trademark policy to this discussion, then the only answer possible is that only releases made by the Apache Hadoop PMC can be called Hadoop. That is, after all, the essence of board delegation to PMCs and the meaning of trademarks. Traditionally, we have also allowed distributions that apply released security patches, for example as found in http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/ and turned a blind eye toward changes that are purely to port to a new platform. I did not write those exceptions down because I don't know what (if any) impact they might have on enforcement. I said before that we typically don't argue about distributions that include revisions that are on a release branch, but that assumed the project is actually working toward a release of that branch. I have a hard time believing that Hadoop's trunk is a release branch. In any case, this very specific exception should be entirely decided by the project -- the VP of Trademarks has no role in deciding what is the purview of each PMC, namely the decision on what is or is not released in the name of that project. ....Roy
