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On Thursday May 28, 2009, Henri Yandell wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:01 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. > > <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > > Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > >> Take for example the donation of ServiceMix by LogicBlaze. LogicBlaze > >> renamed its product offering of ServiceMix to FUSE. > > > > Reread the request! > > > > They aren't asking to brand a fork of the software, or similar that you > > are citing. > > > > They are asking if they provide the "VCL Server" will we be mad? > > > > No more than if they hosted an "Apache HTTP Server" or "Tomcat Server". > > > > If they shipped software they called "VCL" then yes, we would take issue. > > Nope - they're asking if they brand a service "VCL" will we be mad. > > Akin to my setting up a hosting service called "Tomcat" (or DimSum > Tomcat) that lets people log in and run their own Tomcat servers. Plus > if I decide to throw out Tomcat and use Jetty instead, I still get to > call it DimSum Tomcat. > > Hen Hen is correct about it being a service. The VCL software is designed to be run as a service. The software was initially developed at NCSU, and they have a service that was initially known as "VCL". As other institutions started using the software, NCSU changed their service to be "NCSU VCL" and allowed others to brand their services as "<institution name> VCL" (i.e. "GMU VCL"). It was assumed that with moving the development of the software to ASF, it would be named "Apache VCL" and that people using it would have the option to name their services "<institution name> VCL". There was much discussion on the vcl-...@incubator.a.o list about whether or not there were legal issues with that; thus, the discussion was brought up on legal-disc...@. Also, there's a possibility that it may be technically legal, but ASF would frown on it. People at NCSU have thought that using the name Apache VCL would bring those that already knew about VCL while it was developed at NCSU to the ASF community. Thus, it has been confusing that an action that was motivated by the goal of building Apache VCL community would be frowned upon. As a new project that is trying to make it in the ASF Way, we want to avoid being frowned upon. :) Thanks for the guidance, Josh - -- - ------------------------------- 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) iD8DBQFKH9ZXV/LQcNdtPQMRAoxjAJ0RAuANK6SPW9qAWcD/ahvv3RC7kgCffelu uc1/BWXMteiKmLs+YY53pDY= =8B3R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
