[Gt-eos] gtk source repo location

Mátyás Selmeci matyas at cs.wisc.edu
Wed Oct 25 17:04:35 CEST 2017


Does this mean there's a chance of us getting permission to call the 
repo "globus-toolkit" (or at least "open-globus-toolkit" or some 
variation)? Who's going to ask?

-Mat

On 10/20/17 09:22, Mischa Salle wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had a look in the Globus License (basically identical to Apache 2.0),
> see
> https://github.com/globus/globus-toolkit/blob/globus_6_branch/GLOBUS_LICENSE
>
> See point 4C and 6:
>      4. Redistribution. You may reproduce and distribute copies of the
>      Work or Derivative Works thereof in any medium, with or without
>      modifications, and in Source or Object form, provided that You meet
>      the following conditions:
> 	[...]
> 	c. You must retain, in the Source form of any Derivative Works
> 	that You distribute, all copyright, patent, trademark, and
> 	attribution notices from the Source form of the Work, excluding
> 	those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative
> 	Works; and
>      "6. Trademarks. This License does not grant permission to use the
>      trade names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of the
>      Licensor, except as required for reasonable and customary use in
>      describing the origin of the Work and reproducing the content of the
>      NOTICE file."
>
> Important is also that the name Globus Toolkit itself is trademarked:
>      https://trademarks.justia.com/760/66/globus-76066138.html
> i.e. the product name in APL2.0. However, we do require it "for
> reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of the Work"
> So I would say we probably can just retain the name of the *software*,
> as long as we mention that it came from Univ. of Chicago. What we use
> for the community is not so important for me.
>
> Mischa


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