[jira] [Created] (LEGAL-528) Is it required to remove company names from donated software?

["Adam Holmberg (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Adam Holmberg created LEGAL-528:
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             Summary: Is it required to remove company names from donated software?
                 Key: LEGAL-528
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-528
             Project: Legal Discuss
          Issue Type: Question
          Components: Policy Question
            Reporter: Adam Holmberg


Seeking some input from ASF legal. Please let me know if this is not the right avenue.

In the Cassandra project we’re working toward donating a handful of client drivers into project governance. There is a set of drivers that were developed open source, but outside the project, which eventually became defacto standards. We’re now trying to bring them into the project (additional context in the [draft proposal|https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e0SsZxjeTabzrMv99pCz9zIkkgWjUd4KL5Yp0GFzNnY/edit#]).

Some of the drivers have a company name, “datastax” in their package names. There is a question about whether this must be removed from the software in order for this donation to be approved. This might be done in the interest of purity, but the major downside is that it will break every application and ecosystem integration in existence.


Is it absolutely necessary to remove company names when donating existing software, or is it sufficient to sign over the IP in a [grant|http://www.apache.org/licenses/proposed/software-grant.txt]?



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