IANAL, however in case of any legal action ASAF might have a pretty weak case
for at least two reasons:
- Spark is a common word and its usage in the names of software projects (in
different) form is widespread and precedes release of Apache Spark. For
example outside data processing community
While it is permissible to have a maven identify like "spark-foo" from
"org.bar", I'll agree with Sean that avoiding that kind of name is often
wiser. It is just too easy to slip into prohibited usage if the most
popular, de facto identification turns out to become "spark-foo" instead of
something
craps? :(
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:47 AM Koert Kuipers wrote:
> ok it doesnt sound so bad if the maven identifier can have spark it in. no
> big deal!
>
> otherwise i was going to suggest "kraps". like kraps-xml
>
> scala> "spark".reverse
> res0: String = kraps
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at
ok it doesnt sound so bad if the maven identifier can have spark it in. no
big deal!
otherwise i was going to suggest "kraps". like kraps-xml
scala> "spark".reverse
res0: String = kraps
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Sean Owen wrote:
> I'd refer you again to the trademark policy. In the
I'd refer you again to the trademark policy. In the first link I see
projects whose software ID is like "spark-foo" but title/subtitle is like
"Foo for Apache Spark". This is OK. 'sparklyr' is in a gray area we've
talked about before; see https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ as well.
I think
Does it mean that majority of Spark related projects, including top Datatbricks
(https://github.com/databricks?utf8=%E2%9C%93=spark==) or
RStudio (sparklyr) contributions, violate the trademark?
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You might be interested in the full policy:
https://spark.apache.org/trademarks.html
What it is trying to prevent is confusion. Is spark-xml from the Spark
project? Sounds like it but who knows ? What is a vendor releases ASFSpark
3.0? Are people going to think this is an official real project
mhhh thats somewhat unfortunate?
its helpful to me that something is called say spark-xml, it tells me its
xml for spark! any other name would probably be less informative.
or is this still allowed?
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Reynold Xin wrote:
> Unfortunately that’s an Apache
Unfortunately that’s an Apache foundation policy and the Spark community
has no power to change it. My understanding: The reason Spark can’t be in
the name is because if it is used frequently enough, the foundation would
lose the Spark trademark. Cheers.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 7:19 AM Simon
Hey,
thanks for clearning that up.
Imho this is somewhat unfortunate, because package names that contain
"spark", somewhat promote and advertise Apache Spark, right?
Best,
Simon
Am 15.08.18 um 14:00 schrieb Sean Owen:
You raise a great point, and we were just discussing this. The page is
You raise a great point, and we were just discussing this. The page is old
and contains many projects that were listed before the trademarks we're
being enforced. Some have renamed themselves. We will update the page and
remove stale or noncompliant projects and ask those that need to change to
do
Dear all,
I am currently developing two OSS extension packages for spark; one
related to machine learning; one related to biological applications.
According to the trademark guidelines
(https://spark.apache.org/trademarks.html) I am not allowed to use
/Names derived from “Spark”, such as
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