ccing trademarks@ Note the mix of public and private lists. On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanj...@wso2.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Marvin Humphrey > <mar...@rectangular.com>wrote: > >> > == Known Risks == >> > Stratos has largely been developed by sponsored developers employed at >> > a single organization - WSO2. Seeking a broader community of >> > contributors is a top goal of contributing Stratos to Apache. >> > WSO2 plans to continue to offer services and commercial support >> > packages for Stratos, so there is a financial incentive to broaden >> > Stratos’ appeal. This may provide the misinterpretation that Stratos >> > remains merely a WSO2 technology. However, WSO2’s main business >> > strategy is to build and support higher level PaaS offerings >> > (including the WSO2 middleware stack) on top of a common PaaS >> > framework, as provided by Stratos. This includes a WSO2 StratosLive >> > option which is a public PaaS based on WSO2 Stratos. >> >> Kudos for the honest self-analysis. >> > > Thanks :-). > > I wonder whether Apache Brand Management would cry foul on a trademark like >> "StratosLive" if such a product were to appear later because of the >> "confusingly similar name" guideline. We've seen project founders leave >> and >> compete with ASF products while using confusingly similar names before, >> e.g. >> CouchBase. >> > > Yeah we also thought about that .. if StratosLive is too close to home we > can certainly change it. Bit painful but not impossible. >
Better to get an answer to the question up front IMO. > If a "top goal" is "seeking a broader community of contributors", the >> project >> might benefit if it could find a way to reassure potential contributors on >> this matter. Perhaps the name for the WS02 product should be vetted in >> advance? >> > > Yep can do - our current thinking is to have a WSO2 distribution that > contains Apache Stratos and includes all of our middleware products (app > server, esb, etc. etc.). That is, a PaaS built on the PaaS framework from > Apache. > > The thinking is to not give that a specific name but rather call it the > WSO2 distribution of Apache Stratos (or something like that). > I don't think that's one of the 'sanctioned' uses of marks from: In fact, per the below page, it's explicitly forbidden. http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/#products > Shane do you have thoughts on that? That idea is based on what some others > do and it seems to me is clear enough that its not just the Apache code > being redistributed but has more stuff. Analogous to Redhat being a Linux > distribution. > > Cheers, > > Sanjiva. > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ > email: sanj...@wso2.com; phone: +94 11 763 9614; cell: +94 77 787 6880 | +1 > 650 265 8311 > blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ > > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware --David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
