Re: Trademark policy for ITP Percona XtraBackup
* Stewart Smith:
>> Third, you may use the appropriate Percona mark to refer to a
>> distribution of GPL-released Percona software that has been modified
>> with minor changes for the sole purpose of allowing the software to
>> operate on an operating system or hardware platform for which Percona
>> has not yet released the software, provided that those third party
>> changes do not affect the behavior, functionality, features, design or
>> performance of the software. Users who acquire this Percona-branded
>> software receive substantially exact implementations of the Percona
>> software.
That is worded in such a way that it precludes backporting of security
patches.
Usually, if we spot such clauses before including the software the
archive, we just rename it to avoid the use of the trademark and
mention something along "based on Percona XtraBackup" in the package
description. Obviously, this would work in your case as well, but you
should ask yourself if that's really the result you want.
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