Does this still hold Larry after further explanations in later mail?
Apache VCL would exist, and users of Apache VCL would be able to
call their service MyName VCL without our having any trademark
concerns? Are NCSU the effective owners and we have an implied license
from them, so whether MyName VCL is allowed or not is up to NCSU
still?
For Josh's info - 'Business' decisions on trademarks are the realm of
the PRC as opposed to Legal, so we might need to tie them in. I'll see
what Larry says first.
Thanks,
Hen
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Lawrence Rosen lro...@rosenlaw.com wrote:
From those on the legal-discuss list, there's one thing NCSU would like
to get clarification on. If NCSU more clearly donates the name VCL to
Apache, would NCSU still be allowed to run a service that contains VCL
in the name of the service?
Yes. We can't and won't expressly trademark VCL.
NCSU doesn't need to donate anything, merely acquiesce in our calling our
software Apache VCL.
/Larry (with ASF attorney hat on)
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From: Josh Thompson [mailto:josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu]
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Bump.
Is there anyone out there that could give us some direction about our
project
name?
Thanks,
Josh
On Monday May 04, 2009, Josh Thompson wrote:
To the legal-discuss list:
From those on the legal-discuss list, there's one thing NCSU would like
to
get clarification on. If NCSU more clearly donates the name VCL to
Apache, would NCSU still be allowed to run a service that contains VCL
in
the name of the service?
Whether or not the Apache project name changes, the NCSU site
(http://vcl.ncsu.edu) will be updated to clearly reflect that the code
powering the service is from Apache. As a bit of background, while
development of VCL was at NCSU, NCSU had no problems with other
universities using the code to run a service named VCL at their own
site.
It was just asked that somewhere on the site, NCSU was credited with
the
development of VCL. When moving the code to Apache, it was assumed that
this same arrangement would be allowed (i.e. Apache credited with the
development of VCL). It's okay if that's not the case, but it would be
helpful to have some legal reasons explaining why.
To the vcl-dev list:
If using VCL in the name of the service would not be allowed, what do
people in the VCL community think of changing the Apache project name to
VCloud? That name was previously mentioned by Sam in this message:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vcl-
dev/200903.mbox/001
701c99c40$87f1a390$97d4eab0$%40edu
Thanks,
Josh
On Friday May 01, 2009, aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu wrote:
Matt, Alan, Kevan,
Any additional information on the project name ?
I found this in the archives:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-
discuss/200904.mbox/%3
C4 d6e71c2-396a-4b02-afa9-041edd94f...@sun.com%3e
In particular:
If you want to continue to use VCL, I'd recommend asking NCSU to make
more obvious their donation to Apache and their intent to donate not
only the code but the name. This would allow us to claim historic use
of the name. If not, find another name.
How do we donate the name?
NCSU is taking efforts to make the donation more obvious at the ncsu
site.
Thanks for any advice,
Aaron
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