Thanks Doug,
I've decided to renamed the project. As the French people said when a
king use to die: Hibernate Lucene is dead, Long life to Hibernate Search :-)
Keep up the good work guys.
Emmanuel
Doug Cutting wrote:
Here's my understanding. Lucene is a trademark of Apache. In the
context of search technology, Lucene should only be used to refer to
Apache Lucene, and that must be unambiguous. Thus if there's a chance
that someone might think you're talking about "JBoss Lucene" then you
must make it clear that you're really referring to Apache's Lucene.
http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html#Marks
Apache's Trademark policy isn't totally spelled out, but there's been
a proposal to follow Eclipse's guidelines:
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/logo_guidelines.php
Under these guidelines, a product named "Hibernate Lucene" would not
be permitted, but "Hibernate for Lucene" would.
Doug
Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm Emmanuel Bernard from JBoss.
I'm the current lead developer of the Hibernate Lucene integration
module.
The goal of this project is to facilitate the integration of a search
capability to Hibernate based applications. And guess what, I use
Lucene ;-)
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/annotations/reference/en/html/lucene.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/hibernate-dev%40lists.jboss.org/msg00392.html
I realized this week end that the 'Hibernate Lucene' name might
infringe the Apache Lucene trademark policy.
http://www.cafepress.com/lucene/ seems to state that Lucene is a
trademark of the Apache Software Foundation (nice golf shirt BTW)
But I wasn't able to find any document explaining the fair use of the
Lucene brand (the license as well as the notice seem to be silent on
this subject).
Even if Lucene in not trademarked, what do you consider a fair use of
your brand? I'm happy to rename my project, I guess the initial
choice was more a tribute to your project than anything else.
Emmanuel
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