| [rt-pmc] org.eclipse™ and DVCS [was: Re: [ercp-dev] Time for a termination review for eRCP?] |
Hi Wayne On 28 Nov 2012, at 15:39, Wayne Beaton wrote: The "org.eclipse" namespace is a trademark of the Eclipse Foundation and can only be used by Eclipse projects. If the project is re-established away from Eclipse, the namespace will have to be changed. "An important use of the ‘Eclipse’ trademark is the ‘org.eclipse’ string used on all namespaces for Eclipse open source projects. This naming convention is used to identify code that has been developed as an Eclipse open source project. Therefore, we request that no one, except Eclipse open source projects, develop or maintain software packages that use ‘org.eclipse’ in their namespace." In the world of distributed version control, this has interesting ramifications. I guess that someone forking an Eclipse project, e.g. on github, with a view to doing an experiment, informing the work of the Eclipse project, developing a (potential) contribution to the Eclipse project, and such like is abiding by the spirit of the above request. But if such a fork took on a life of its own, e.g. started shipping deliverables independently of the Eclipse project and with modifications to the Eclipse project codebase, then they'd probably need to change package naming to abide by the above request. Is that roughly the way you see things? Regards, Glyn |