[jakarta.ee-spec] [DISCUSS] Update JESP to Clarify `jakarta` Namespace R

[David Blevins <dblevins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 16, 2025, at 7:33 AM, Emily Jiang via jakarta.ee-spec <jakarta.ee-spec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

specs not even using mp namespaces such as MP Telemetry adopting OpenTelemetry

Adding legal clarification which can hopefully help reduce the scope of discussion we need to have around namespaces.

Any code produced by a third-party, such as io.opentelemetry produced by the CNCF, is legally distinct.  Our specifications can use them as dependencies (provided they are legally compatible), but they are dependencies of a specification and not in the scope of what is considered part of the specification from any legal perspective (IP, Patent, Trademark) as a product of the Eclipse Foundation.

So say we had passed a JESP update that stated code produced by a specification project must be in either jakarta.* or org.eclipse.microprofile.*, that would still allow dependency on io.opentelemetry.

-David