On 04/08/2013 23:42, Christian Mueller wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> Assume Apache Foo is publishing its artifacts to Maven central with the
> coordinates
> org.apache.foo:foo-core:1.0.0
>
> Assume there is a company Bar who builds his product based on Apache
> Foo. Do we allow Bar to publish its modified Apache Foo artifacts with
> the name
> org.apache.foo:foo-core:1.0.0-bar-001
> ?
No. org.apache.* is for the ASF only. Anyone else publishing into the
org.apache namespace would confuse end-users about the source of the
software.
> Make it a difference whether the artifacts are "only" published to a
> freely accessible Maven repository maintained by Bar (and not to Maven
> central)?
No.
> Excuse me, if this is not the appropriate mailing list for such kind of
> question and please forward me to the right one.
This belongs on (the private) trademarks@.a.o (I've moved it to that list)
I'm assuming that there is a specific issue here. If that is the case,
please make sure the details are made available to the private
trademarks@a.o list
Mark
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