Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hadoop-general-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-general-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99B7A479D for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 17:28:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 99826 invoked by uid 500); 13 May 2011 17:28:45 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-general-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 99778 invoked by uid 500); 13 May 2011 17:28:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 99770 invoked by uid 99); 13 May 2011 17:28:45 -0000 Received: from minotaur.apache.org (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 13 May 2011 17:28:45 +0000 Received: from localhost (HELO [172.16.37.108]) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username aw, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 13 May 2011 17:28:44 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Subject: Re: Defining Hadoop Compatibility -revisiting- From: Allen Wittenauer In-Reply-To: <4DCCF172.5010504@apache.org> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 10:28:41 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <99AB77CF-025E-4E4A-BD7F-BDA362E633BF@apache.org> References: <4DCCF172.5010504@apache.org> To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) On May 13, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Doug Cutting wrote: > Here "certified" is probably just intended to mean that the software > uses a "certified" open source license, e.g., listed at > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/. However they should say that = this > "includes" or "contains" the various Apache products, not that it "is" = them. If it has a modified version of Hadoop (i.e., not an actual = Apache release or patches which have never been committed to trunk), are = they allowed to say "includes Apache Hadoop"? At what point is it not = Apache Hadoop?