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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 - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson Systems Programmer Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) North Carolina State University josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu 919-515-5323 my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKHVcfV/LQcNdtPQMRAmhVAJ9AbkQrMQPQmAUbzqU1RWTC+BQfxQCeJAYX nQc36WzLTUwAfkXuu94sAoU= =3CVv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
