Hey Nick, I think Hitesh was just trying to be helpful and point out the policy - not necessarily saying there was an issue. We've taken a close look at this and I think we're in good shape her vis-a-vis this policy.
- Patrick On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hitesh, > > From your link: > > You may not use ASF trademarks such as "Apache" or "ApacheFoo" or "Foo" in > your own domain names if that use would be likely to confuse a relevant > consumer about the source of software or services provided through your > website, without written approval of the VP, Apache Brand Management or > designee. > > The title on the packages website is "A community index of packages for > Apache Spark." Furthermore, the footnote of the website reads "Spark > Packages is a community site hosting modules that are not part of Apache > Spark." > > I think there's nothing on there that would "confuse a relevant consumer > about the source of software". It's pretty clear that the Spark Packages > name is well within the ASF's guidelines. > > Have I misunderstood the ASF's policy? > > Nick > > > On Mon Dec 22 2014 at 6:40:10 PM Hitesh Shah <hit...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Hello Xiangrui, >> >> If you have not already done so, you should look at >> http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/#domains for the policy on use of ASF >> trademarked terms in domain names. >> >> thanks >> -- Hitesh >> >> On Dec 22, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Xiangrui Meng <men...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Dear Spark users and developers, >> > >> > I'm happy to announce Spark Packages (http://spark-packages.org), a >> > community package index to track the growing number of open source >> > packages and libraries that work with Apache Spark. Spark Packages >> > makes it easy for users to find, discuss, rate, and install packages >> > for any version of Spark, and makes it easy for developers to >> > contribute packages. >> > >> > Spark Packages will feature integrations with various data sources, >> > management tools, higher level domain-specific libraries, machine >> > learning algorithms, code samples, and other Spark content. Thanks to >> > the package authors, the initial listing of packages includes >> > scientific computing libraries, a job execution server, a connector >> > for importing Avro data, tools for launching Spark on Google Compute >> > Engine, and many others. >> > >> > I'd like to invite you to contribute and use Spark Packages and >> > provide feedback! As a disclaimer: Spark Packages is a community index >> > maintained by Databricks and (by design) will include packages outside >> > of the ASF Spark project. We are excited to help showcase and support >> > all of the great work going on in the broader Spark community! >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Xiangrui >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org >> > >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org
