Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flex for Apache Incubator

Ross Gardler wrote on Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 22:24:54 +0000:
> The proposal says "Existing Flex-related conferences, podcasts and
> websites should be allowed to continue using "Flex" as part of their
> name - Apache Flex will have to create guidelines for that."
>

For those who don't know it already: there are ASF-wide on the use of
Apache marks in such contexts (set by the concom@ and trademarks@
committees), and they will kick in (or need to be exempted from) if and
when the "Flex" mark is donated.

http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/

> Whilst I don't see any problem with that in principle it would be
> really useful to itemise these items so that we know what we are
> dealing with.
>
> Ross
>
> On 20 December 2011 09:02, Leo Simons <mail@leosimons.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com> wrote:
> >> I would like to propose Flex to be an Apache Incubator project.
> >>
> >> Here's a link to the proposal:
> >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/FlexProposal
> >
> > Pasted inline:
> >
> > = Apache Flex Proposal =
> >
> > == Background ==
> >
> > Adobe will donate the Flex trademark to the Apache Software Foundation
> > as part of the incubation process. The source code, documentation and
> > related assets will all be contributed to the Apache Foundation as
> > Flex.
> >
> > == Source and IP Submission Plan ==
> >
> >  * All canonical source will be moved to Apache infrastructure under
> > the name Flex.
> >  * Documentation and specifications will be moved completely over to
> > the Apache systems.
> >  * The existing Flash Builder trademark will be used as a commercial entity.
> >  * Existing Flex-related conferences, podcasts and websites should be
> > allowed to continue using "Flex" as part of their name - Apache Flex
> > will have to create guidelines for that.

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