It looks like Marc and I started at the same time (but he got in ahead). Here's my response anyway...
Note that it is important that the project operate in an open and transparent manner. There needs to be a so-called "level playing field" where all comers can participate equally. If there is a perception that the project is an "HP Project", then that will
dissuade the community from participating.
It's okay to indicate that the work is being done by HP, but you need to take care with your website and communications to make it clear that the project is not owned by HP and that participation is welcome.
More comments/answers in line.
Wayne
On 09/11/14 11:30 AM, Zafrir, Harar wrote:
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score Trademark ownership
score is a part of an existing HP Software product, but was not publically used by anyone outside Eclipse Foundation yet.
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Should the
Trademark Transfer Agreement be signed? If so – who is authorized (as far as EF can say) to sign it by the name of “HP Software”?
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Will that agreement also cover logo images? (agreement seems to refer to TM and domain names only)
AFAIK, the Eclipse Foundation has already claimed the trademark so a transfer agreement is not necessary.
AFAIK we don't tend to explicitly trademark project logos. As an Eclipse project, you need to take care to not infringe on the trademarks of others; if HP decides to give a logo to the project, they have to treat the logo as the project's property and HP would
have to follow the same rules as everybody else regarding their use (see below).
Janet or Mike will correct me if I'm mistaken.
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Mentioning score in HP Software’s publications
Which rules are apply when mentioning / referring to score as an Eclipse Foundation open source project – in HP Software publications?
You can find answers to your trademark questions here:
https://www.eclipse.org/legal/logo_guidelines.php
(look for "Proper Usage of Eclipse Project Names and Logos")
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EPL v1.0 was not approved yet by HP Software
HP Software has a process for approving code to be contributed as an Open Source project.
This process was initially launched with the request to approve Apache v2.0 license.
Later on (following the progress we made with Eclipse Foundation), we have added the request to include EPL v1.0 as well.
This process was not completed yet, so at the moment we only have approval for Apache 2.0, and approval for EPL 1.0 is pending.
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Is it possible to temporarily use Apache 2.0 only?
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If not – could we delay our code contribution until we receive our final approval?
Since score is dual licensed, the code needs to be contributed as such. In the meantime, don't make any code available until you've secured permission to contribute it under the project licenses.
So... wait to initiate the initial contribution process until after you've gotten the necessary internal permissions.
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Copyright HP Software
We would like to keep a copyright notice for HP Software – for all the code included in the initial contribution.
Does that comply with Eclipse Foundation licenses and guidelines?
Please do keep the copyright. It is standard practice that the copyright be retained by the owner.
Please see
https://www.eclipse.org/legal/copyrightandlicensenotice.php
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Released artifacts group ID
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Must we change group ID to org.eclipse?
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Can we use com.hp.score?
Bundle names and Java packages should all be changed to org.eclipse.score.*.
I believe that for Maven, we've been using the convention of including the project name, so the Group ID would be org.eclipse.score.
There's more here:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/HOWTO/The_Eclipse_Code_Namespace_Policy
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Using HP’s logo in project content – inside Eclipse Foundation
What rules apply when we use HP Software’s name / logo inside Eclipse Foundation project pages?
We can see for example in BIRT, that ACTUATE logo is present.
Could we use HP Software’s logo the same way?
The rule is that member companies that are contributing ongoing resources (i.e. at least one commit every three months) to a project can display their logo on the project page. Given that HP is a member and that there is an ongoing effort to get the code contributed,
it would okay to include an HP logo and link on the project page.
We display company logos automatically on the project information pages (based on commits in the associated git repositories).
e.g.
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/soa.stardust
More here:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Project_Management_Infrastructure/Project_Metadata#Company_Logos