Removing my CloudBees hat for this comment. Has the jenkins project got legal advice wrt opening up this new "convention"?
The concern here is protecting the mark. I know for maven we had some discussion and agreed (as a PMC) to permit the usage ___ maven plugin but not maven ___ plugin provided it was in the context of a plugin for maven itself... (Not sure how to handle jenkins' evil plugin btw) I cannot recall whether there was a legal reason for the distinction or whether we just wanted to open up the minimum so that we retained freedom to open up more in a considered fashion Puts CloudBees hat back on On Wednesday, November 5, 2014, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <[email protected]> wrote: > Jenkins project necessitates > <https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Governance+Document#GovernanceDocument-Trademark> > that when a 3rd party uses the name "Jenkins" it would have to get a > blessing from the project meeting. > > In the past, we've established that "Jenkins Foo by AcmeCorp" is generally > an acceptable pattern. CloudBees has gotten several approvals that match > this convention, such as Jenkins Enterprise by CloudBees. > > In this post, I'm requesting that we bless "AcmeCorp Jenkins Foo" as a > generally acceptable pattern. And specifically, CloudBees want to get an > approval for the following patterns: > > - CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise > - CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center > - CloudBees Jenkins Analytics > > With my OSS hat on, I think our guiding principle in the past name usage > approval is that the use does not cause confusions among users as to the > source of the effort/product. This is the same with other organizations. > See what Apache says on this topic > <http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/#guidelines>. There are a > numerous other examples of names that fit this convention in other > open-source projects, such as HP Helion OpenStack > <http://www8.hp.com/us/en/cloud/hphelion-openstack-overview.html>, Piston > OpenStack <http://pistoncloud.com/openstack-cloud-software/>, CollabNet > Subversion Edge <http://www.collab.net/community/subversion>, Red Hat > Enterprise Linux > <http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux> > just to name a few. > > I also think a policy that's not overly restrictive to the participants, > even for commercial entities, helps the community grow faster. While > commercial interest to an OSS project is always seen bit suspiciously, > especially in this project given the past with Oracle, the participation > from companies like CloudBees, Praqma, and Red Hat helped in many ways, > ranging from putting more developers to event organizations. Linux is a > good example of this, which enabled a lot of participations & adoptions. > This was always my mental model for Jenkins, and one that fits with the > open-ended plugin ecosystem in Jenkins. > > I had some conversation with Andrew and Dean about this topic, and we felt > that the next step is to bring this to here for a wider discussion. > > Dean wanted to make sure (and I hope I'm not putting words in his mouth > here) that we aren't bending rules and principles just because it came from > CloudBees, as CloudBees is a big player in this community. And I agree --- > we should be just as happy to accept "Oracle Jenkins Cloud", "Microsoft > Jenkins Cluster", or whatever, in principle. > > So there it is. Your thoughts and feedbacks appreciated. I'm hoping that > we can get this officially approved soon. > > -- > Kohsuke Kawaguchi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jenkinsci-dev%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from my phone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
